Overcoming Renewable Energy Barriers in the Shannon Region

Slide1CORE-Business Project CORE-Business  Project Dr Patrick Hartigan Moher Technologies (IRL)

Slide2Shannon Region Shannon  Region

Slide3Renewable Energy  -  barriers Renewable  Energy  -  barriers  Lack of knowledge  Little public acceptance  Concern for tourism  Perceive little opportunity for employment  Weak government support

Slide4CORE-Business (Feb03  –  Jan  05) CORE-Business  (Feb03  –  Jan  05)  EU Altener funding  Regional SMEs & industrial development agency  Business incubator partners  Employment and enterprise creation focus  EU role models: DK, D, I, E, H, GR, A

Slide5MethodologyMethodology Study resource Survey attitudes Bench- mark Set targets Choose pilots Comm- unicate results Optimise benefits

Slide6Study Resource Study  Resource 8 m/s Wind Wave Wood Solar Geothermal Hydro

Slide7Industrial resource Industrial  resource Wave Energy Wind & wave Software

Slide8Attitudes survey Attitudes  survey Fig.  "What form of RE would be of interest for you?" Which RE is most interesting ?

Slide9BenchmarkingBenchmarking   Resource Targets Actions Shannon (IRL)  Sardegna Crete Samsoe (DK) SZSB County (H) Amstetten (A) Castilla y Leon (E)

Slide10Set Targets Set  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

Slide11Choose Pilots Choose  Pilots Wood biomass community heating project. Community owned wind projects. RE technology enterprise incubator Solar thermal demonstrator. 1 MW wave project

Slide12Criteria for  Pilots Criteria  for  Pilots • Job creation • Landscape • Tourism • Local raw materials • Ownership • Enterprise/intellectual property (IP) creation • Skills development

Slide13Optimising benefits Optimising  benefits €10 m manufacturer instal- lation plan- ning finance other IP labour materials % % % % % % % % % EU % IRL % Region

Slide14€10 million  Wind energy project, Ireland  €10 million  Wind energy project, Denmark €10 m Cap ex €0.5 m Annual  exp Turbines Civil engineering Electrical engineering Project Mgt Feasibility Study Authorisations O&M Finance Insurance 92% exported 90% kept in DK, >10% in Region Where  is  all  the  cash  going? Where  is  all  the  cash  going?

Slide15ConclusionConclusion Community involvement Industrial actvity RE Deployment %

Slide16ContactContact Dr  Patrick  Hartigan Dr  Patrick  Hartigan Co-ordinator, Co-ordinator, CORE-Business  Project CORE-Business  Project hartigan@moher.ie hartigan@moher.ie www.core-business.org www.core-business.org