Renewable energy use up 20%

Posted on | November 12, 2008 |

Ireland’s use of renewable energy is growing by almost 20% a year.

A report from Sustainable Energy Ireland shows our use of renewables doubled over the four years to 2007.

As a result of a 12% increase last year, 2.1 million tonnes of CO2 emissions were avoided.

Half of last year’s renewable energy contribution came from wind energy.