CORE-Business Project

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CORE-Business Project

• Dr Patrick Hartigan
• Moher Technologies (IRL)

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Shannon Region
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Renewable Energy - barriers

• Lack of knowledge
• Little public acceptance
• Concern for tourism
• Perceive little opportunity for employment
• Weak government support

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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

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Methodology
Study resource
Bench- mark
Set targets
Choose pilots
Comm- unicate results
Optimise benefits
Survey attitudes
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Study Resource
8 m/s
Wind
Wave
Wood
Solar
Geothermal
Hydro
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Industrial resource
Wave Energy
Wind wave Software
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Attitudes survey
Which RE is most interesting ?
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Benchmarking
 
Resource Targets Actions
Shannon (IRL)
Sardegna
Crete
Samsoe (DK)
SZSB County (H)
Amstetten (A)
Castilla y Leon (E)
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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
   
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Choose Pilots
Wood biomass community heating project.
Community owned wind projects. RE technology
enterprise incubator Solar thermal demonstrator.
1 MW wave project
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Criteria for Pilots

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

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Optimising benefits
10 m





manufacturer
instal- lation
plan- ning
finance
other


labour
materials
EU IRL Region

IP
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Where is all the cash going?

• 10 million Wind energy project, Ireland
• 10 million Wind energy project, Denmark

10 m Cap ex
Turbines Civil engineering Electrical
engineering Project Mgt Feasibility
Study Authorisations OM Finance Insurance
92 exported
0.5 m Annual exp
90 kept in DK, gt10 in Region
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Conclusion
Community involvement

Industrial actvity
RE Deployment
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Contact

• Dr Patrick Hartigan
• Co-ordinator,
• CORE-Business Project
• hartigan_at_moher.ie
• www.core-business.org