At present, CREDIT is mostly funded by European research grants. Since 2005, CREDIT has raised over Euro 2.5 million, all from competitive bids. CREDIT has received significant assistance in the past from SEAI, Enterprise Ireland, Airtricity and the BMW Regional Assembly.
On-Campus Vestas V52, 850 kW Wind Turbine
February 15, 2012
Overview
(You can find news about the campus wind turbine here.)
In August 2005 we installed the world’s first large commercial wind turbine on a college campus. The turbine initially provided about half of Dundalk IT’s electricity needs; nowadays, with the expansion of the institute, it provides approximately a third of the electricity used on-campus. It is the first urban turbine in Ireland; we hope that many Irish towns will begin to address their energy needs in this way, at a local level.
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Research at CREDIT
February 14, 2012There’s an often-discussed gap between the work of academia and industry: work that’s too applied for academics but too academic for many companies to undertake profitably. Applied research is a broad term that can be used to describe this missing work. In the United States and elsewhere, various organisations fill the gap: the National Laboratories, start-up companies and autonomous industrial research and development teams are all on a spectrum bridging academia and industry.
At academic end of this gap is where CREDIT works in Ireland. CREDIT is an applied research centre but with a significant teaching and training component.
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A Renewable Energy Future
February 14, 2012Here on our Earth, we have a limited supply of fossil fuels. Fossil-fuels are fuels that have formed over tens of millions of years from dead organisms. Read the rest of this entry »
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Mission
January 16, 2012Our mission is to,
Assist Ireland’s coming transition to a renewable energy-based economy.
- CREDIT, 2002 — 2012.
Ireland requires high quality renewable energy research; apart from the intrinsic value of research to a society, such work supports the teaching of new engineers and scientists, underpins future technological development and capability and enables effective representation on international committees. All these things are required for a renewable energy future.
Niall McMahon, 2012.
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Flow-Battery System
November 9, 2011CREDIT operates a large flow-battery electricity storage system. This is coupled to the campus Vestas V52 wind turbine. We believe this to be the first installation of its kind in Europe, i.e. a flow-battery with a large-scale stand-alone wind turbine. The battery was installed primarily as a research platform.
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DkIT
October 24, 2011CREDIT is based in the School of Engineering at Dundalk Institute of Technology (DkIT).
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Larry Staudt on the Campus Wind Turbine
February 4, 2009Larry Staudt discusses the campus wind turbine (2009).
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