This will inform its report on what should be in the National Energy and Climate Plan that Ireland must submit to the EU. The visit is hosted by Tipperary Energy Agency (TEA), a not-for-profit set up by Tipperary County Council 20 years ago. “This is what actual climate action means,” Tipperary Energy Agency chief executive Paul Kenny tells the delegation. The “energy transition” is going to be driven by electricity, and we should start by “just taking fossil fuels out of the equation immediately”. What was facing Ireland on climate change was daunting, he said, “yet the examples today are so simple”.

Source: The Irish Times December 01, 2018 06:00 UTC