It was an extremely proud day to see Vera O'Riordan successfully defend her PhD entitled "Enhanced Modelling of Transport Decarbonisation and Policy Pathways for Ireland", under the examination of Prof. Jillian Anable and Dr. Richard O'Shea, along with co-supervisors Dr. Fionn Rogan and Prof Brian Ó Gallachóir.

Dr. Paul Deane spoke to RTÉ’s Drivetime (Listen here at 53 minutes) about Ireland’s first Climate Change Assessment. 

The Energy Policy and Modelling group at UCC collaborated with SEAI to engage on modelling insights, the future of modelling, climate policy and increasing absorptive capacity. Collaborative report coming soon!

Ó Gallachóir heralds the development of the all-island Single Electricity Market (SEM) as one of the “hidden giants” of greater all-island cooperation, 25 years after the signing of the Good Friday Agreement.

In 1995, the North South Electricity Interconnector was restored after almost 20 years of inaction and since then several significant electricity and gas infrastructure projects have been developed on the island, ranging from the commissioning of the Moyle electricity interconnector to Scotland in 2021 to the approval in 2018 of a second North South Interconnector.

MaREI Director and Associate Vice President of Sustainability at UCC Prof Brian Ó Gallachóir spoke with Claire Byrne on RTE Radio One on the 15th of January about the announcement by Electric Ireland to reduce their residential electricity prices by 8% from March.