KidWind is a teacher training course about wind energy. In Ireland, KidWind training is provided by the Centre for Renewable Energy at Dundalk IT in association with IWEA, Wind Skillnet with the generous support of corporate sponsors including Gaelectric and Bord Gáis. From the Irish Wind Energy Association’s website, about KidWind:
KidWind Ireland is a project that seeks to support teachers all over Ireland to access training programs and equipment in wind energy.
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KidWind discussed on Clare FM’s Morning Focus show on Monday, November 14th. From Clare FM’s summary:
“Bord Gáis Energy partnered with the Irish Wind Energy Association (IWEA) ran ‘Kid Wind’ – a four day renewable energy training course for secondary school teachers. Read the rest of this entry »
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“STUDENTS can now build their own model wind turbine thanks to training undertaken by their teachers during the mid-term break”.
Article about KidWind in Ireland. KidWind training is provided by CREDIT in association with IWEA, Wind Skillnet and corporate sponsors.
From the Irish Examiner article, published Friday, November 04, 2011.
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Raymond Byrne of CREDIT attended the IEC 61400-2 / IEA R&D Task 27 committee meetings in Xiangshan, China, from the 7th to the 11th of November. Ginlong Technologies hosted the meeting on behalf of the Chinese people. CREDIT and DkIT will host a meeting in September 2012.
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The Centre for Renewable Energy and the School of Engineering are pleased to launch the new Certificate in Renewable Energy. This brand-new course provides learners with an introduction to renewable energy technologies including wind energy, solar, bioenergy and water energy.
The course will commence on the 12th of October 2011 and will run one evening per week for 24 weeks with four additional site visits at weekends.
More information is availabe here.
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“Case Study: Scottish Association for Marine Science – BioMara Project (InterReg IV) BioMara is an R & D based project that aims to generate new, mostly scientific, data that will inform new technologies applicable to the development of locally produced biofuels from marine products … [t]he partners in the project are the Scottish Association for Marine Science ( SAMS); the Centre for Renewable Energy, Dundalk Institute of Technology ( CREDIT); the University of Strathclyde Fraser of Allander Institute; the University of Ulster Centre for Sustainable Technologies; QUESTOR – a cross border centre co-ordinated by The Queen’s University Belfast and involving Dublin City University and the US Stevens Institute of Technology; and the Institute of Technology, Sligo ( IT Sligo)”.
From the discussion paper Towards a Low Carbon Economy for Scotland, published by the Scottish Government on March 22nd 2010.
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“In one application, a ZESS 500 battery will store power generated by an 850 kW wind turbine that already provides half the power for Ireland’s Dundalk Institute of Technology Centre for Renewable Energy Project. This installation of a ZESS 500 with a wind application will let the campus operate independent of the electrical grid.”
(Not entirely accurate: we will always need the grid.) Article about battery technology in wind.
From the Windpower Engineering & Development article, published February 24th 2010.
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Larry Staudt discusses the campus wind turbine (2009).
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WHEN the fearsome Cuchulainn was transformed by the rage of battle into a Celtic Incredible Hulk, according to Irish mythology, the warrior’s intensity melted snow for 30 feet around him. That was an impressive generation of alternative energy from this Achilles-like hero so closely associated with Dundalk, but this town on Ireland’s east coast is turning to less ephemeral kinds of power as it tests technologies to reduce the country’s thirst for fossil fuels.
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The Director of the Centre for Renewable Energy, Larry Staudt, was interviewed for Dundalk FM on issues relating to fossil fuel prices, the national energy outlook and the wind turbine at Dundalk IT. Read the rest of this entry »
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The campus wind turbine produced 1.4 million kWh of electricity and offset 900 tonnes of CO2 in 2007. Read the rest of this entry »
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