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Thursday 20 November, Dublin…speaking at ACCA Ireland’s Business Leaders Forum, Mr Eddie O’Connor, former Airtricity founder and now CEO of Mainstream Renewable Power,  told the audience that for Ireland to be a net exporter of green power, it needs Europe like it never needed it before.
Said Mr O’Connor,  “We need a completely sustainable energy economy by 2050 as there will have been  no more fossil plant build after 2030. To accomplish all this we need the Supergrid to capture the great wind reserves of the North Sea and the North Atlantic and the great solar reserves around the Mediterranean.   Ireland is not capable of building or thinking out the Supergrid,   it needs the leadership of the EU Commission and Parliament.”
Eddie O’Connor was founder and Chief Executive of Airtricity from 1997 to January 2008, before its sale to Scottish and Southern Energy. He set up Renewable Mainstream Power later on that year.

Said Mr Brendan Foster, president of ACCA Ireland,  “Climate change is no longer a sideline issue on business agendas.   Research in the US has shown that continued pressure by major institutional investors is having success in getting large corporations to reduce emissions and look at sustainable energy alternatives.”

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Beibhinn Coman, communications and marketing manager, ACCA Ireland
beibhinn.coman@ie.accaglobal.com
087-0561020

Or

Barbara Elliott,
Touchstone Communications
01-2937956 / 087-2933580
barbara@tstone.ie

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