CORE-Business ProjectCORE-Business Project

Dr Patrick Hartigan

Moher Technologies (IRL)

Shannon RegionShannon Region

Renewable Energy - barriersRenewable Energy - barriers

Lack of knowledgeLittle public acceptanceConcern for tourism Perceive little opportunity for

employmentWeak government support

CORE-Business (Feb03 – Jan CORE-Business (Feb03 – Jan 05)05)

EU Altener fundingRegional SMEs & industrial

development agencyBusiness incubator partnersEmployment and enterprise creation

focusEU role models: DK, D, I, E, H, GR, A

MethodologyMethodology

Studyresource

Surveyattitudes

Bench-mark

Settargets

Choosepilots

Comm-unicateresultsOptimise

benefits

Study ResourceStudy Resource

8 m/sWind

Wave

Wood

Solar

Geothermal

Hydro

Industrial resourceIndustrial resource

Wave Energy

Wind & waveSoftware

Attitudes surveyAttitudes survey

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Biomass WindEnergy

Anaerobicdigesters

Wave/TidalPower

SolarEnergy

GeothermalEnergy

Fig. "What form of RE would be of interest for you?"

Which RE is most interesting ?

BenchmarkingBenchmarking

 

Resource Targets Actions

Shannon (IRL)

Sardegna

Crete

Samsoe (DK)

SZSB County (H)

Amstetten

(A)

Castilla y Leon (E)

Set TargetsSet Targets

Wind 290 MW

Offshore Wind 150 MW

Biomass 10MW

Solar 20 MW

Biogas 10 MW

Geothermal 2 MW

Wave 10 MW

Hydro 5 MW

Choose PilotsChoose Pilots

Wood biomass community heating project.

Community owned wind projects.

RE technology enterprise incubator

Solar thermal demonstrator.

1 MW wave project

Criteria for PilotsCriteria for Pilots

•Job creation

•Landscape

•Tourism

•Local raw materials

•Ownership

•Enterprise/intellectual property (IP) creation

•Skills development

Optimising benefitsOptimising benefits

€10 m

manufacturerinstal-lation

plan-ning

finance other

IP

labour materials

%

%%

% % % %

%

% EU

% IRL

% Region

€10 million Wind energy project, Ireland

€10 million Wind energy project, Denmark

€10 mCap ex

€0.5 mAnnual

exp

TurbinesCivil engineering

Electrical engineeringProject Mgt

Feasibility StudyAuthorisations

O&MFinance

Insurance

92% exported

90% kept in DK, >10% in Region

Where is all the cash going?Where is all the cash going?

ConclusionConclusion

Community

involvement

Industrial

actvityRE

Deployment

%

ContactContact

Dr Patrick HartiganDr Patrick HartiganCo-ordinator, Co-ordinator, CORE-Business ProjectCORE-Business Projecthartigan@moher.iewww.core-business.orgwww.core-business.org