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Open Public Consultation on Horizon 2020 Societal Challenge 2 Work Programme 2018-2020

Horizon 2020 reflects the policy priorities of the Europe 2020 strategy and addresses major concerns shared by citizens in Europe and elsewhere.The public consultation on Horizon 2020 – Food Security, Sustainable Agriculture and Forestry, Marine and Maritime and Inland Water Research and the Bioeconomy- Work Programme 2018-2020 is open from 06 June until 28 August. Details […]

New IrBEA website launched

IrBEA are pleased to announce the release of their new website at www.irbea.org, hope you like it. We intend to have the latest information and news from bioenergy industry. If you have any questions, comments or suggestions please send them to contact@irbea.ie. Fuelled by interest from members we have included new functionality to our website called […]

Update from DCENR

IrBEA has received feedback from DCENR over the last 2 weeks, the department seemed genuinely interested in working  to ensure that the Bioenergy policy delivery is appropriate. It is still their intention to roll out RHI by early 2017. The timeline seems to be that there will be another consultation in late June. It will have three components: […]

IrBEA meet with DAFM Climate Change & Bioenergy Policy Division

Biogas: IrBEA met with DAFM Climate Change and Bioenergy Policy Division. On Tuesday 12th April IrBEA’s Padraic O’Neil and Noel Gavigan responded to a request from Department of Agriculture Food and Marine officials to meet and discuss the options for biogas at an agricultural level. Over a wide ranging meeting the options and possibilities were discussed for […]

Report from the IrBEA Bioenergy Study Tour Denmark – Sept 2016

  We had a very successful and enjoyable trip to Denmark, representatives participated from a broad range of sectors including Irish biomass boiler manufacturers, Coillte, private forestry and farming interests, pellet producers, representatives from Údarás na Gaeltachta, and other government agencies focusing on building sustainable rural energy projects. Brewery Vestfyen was our first site visit, here they […]