{"id":1,"date":"2013-10-31T00:18:53","date_gmt":"2013-10-31T00:18:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress-3.7\/wordpress\/?p=1"},"modified":"2014-02-03T20:38:07","modified_gmt":"2014-02-03T20:38:07","slug":"news-archive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.geothermalassociation.ie\/wp\/?p=1","title":{"rendered":"News Archive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>16\/10\/2013\u00a0 We are proud to have SEAI as the main sponsor of the 3rd GAI conference taking place next month.<\/strong> See <a title=\"GAI Events\" href=\"http:\/\/dev.geothermalassociation.ie\/wp\/events.html\">Events<\/a> page and <a title=\"3rd GAI Conference 13 November, Kilkenny\" href=\"http:\/\/dev.geothermalassociation.ie\/wp\/2013NovConf.html\">conference page<\/a> for more details.<\/p>\n<p><strong>21\/6\/13 Strategic Research Priorities for Geothermal Technology (heating &amp; cooling) and Geothermal Electricity online!<\/strong> (via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.egec.com\/\">http:\/\/www.egec.com\/<\/a>)<br \/>\nThe Renewable Heating and Cooling Platform's Geothermal Technology Panel has published the <a title=\"Strategic Research Priorities for Geothermal Technology (H&amp;C)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rhc-platform.org\/fileadmin\/Publications\/Geothermal_SRA.pdf\">Strategic Research Priorities for Geothermal Technology (heating &amp; cooling)<\/a> and the <a title=\"Strategic Research Priorities for the Geothermal Electricity\" href=\"http:\/\/egec.info\/assets\/uploads\/2012\/06\/SRA-Geothermal-Electricity.pdf\">Strategic Research Priorities for the Geothermal Electricity<\/a> (TP Geoelec).<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>31\/5\/2013\u00a0 Brecan Mooney 2013 Non-Domestic Installation of the Year Competition - competition now closed<br \/>\n<\/strong>We are currently evaluating entries... winners will be announced at the November Conference!<\/p>\n<p><strong>31\/5\/2013 UK RHI GSHP rates to double<\/strong> (via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gshp.org.uk\/\">http:\/\/www.gshp.org.uk<\/a>)<br \/>\nDECC announced an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/uploads\/system\/uploads\/attachment_data\/file\/204446\/Tariff_Review_Consultation_for_PUBLICATION.pdf\">Early Tariff Review of Commercial RHI rates<\/a> on 31 May 2013 \u2013 following intensive lobbying by the GSHPA over the 18 months since the Commercial RHI started in November 2011. DECC now proposes a dramatic increase in RHI rates for GSHPs to respond to a take up of less than 1% of the number of installations DECC had originally anticipated. See <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gshp.org.uk\/RHI_Commercial.html\">RHI \u2013 Commercial<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>14\/5\/2013 REGEOCITIES: Presentations from past national validation workshops are now available <\/strong>(via http:\/\/regeocities.eu\/)<br \/>\nThe Irish workshop took place in Dublin in April. See the REGEOCITIES pages for more information and to download the <a title=\"REGEOCITIES Workshop - Ireland\" href=\"http:\/\/regeocities.eu\/events\/national-validation-workshop-ireland\/\">Irish results<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>08\/02\/2013:<\/strong> GAI AGM preceded by site visit to UCD thermal characterisation equipment and IRETHERM update lecture. UCD, Belfield Campus, Dublin 4.<\/p>\n<p><strong>17\/11\/2012:<\/strong> Geothermal Association of Ireland fieldtrip<br \/>\nVisit to GMIT instrumented ground source heat research installation.<\/p>\n<p><strong>05\/11\/2012:<\/strong> Geothermal Association of Ireland Lecture, Geological Survey of Ireland<br \/>\nDeep geothermal energy potential of the sedimentary basins of NE Ireland<br \/>\n<em>Derek Reay, Geological Survey of Northern Ireland<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>01\/05\/2012:<\/strong> Joint Geothermal Association of Ireland\/International Association of Hydrogeologists (Irish Group) Lecture, Geological Survey of Ireland<br \/>\nDeep geothermal drilling in a city centre: the Newcastle Science Central Borehole<br \/>\n<em>Paul Younger, Newcastle Institute for Research on Sustainability, Newcastle, UK<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>02\/03\/2012:<\/strong> GAI AGM held at the Geological Survey of Ireland, Dublin 4.<br \/>\nThe AGM was followed with short presentations given on:<br \/>\n- Tellus Border and applications for geothermal energy. <em>Mairead Glennon, GSI<\/em>.<br \/>\n- The Shallow Geothermal Resource Project. <em>Monica Lee, GSI<\/em>.<br \/>\n- IRETHERM, <em>Mark Muller, DIAS<\/em>.<br \/>\n<strong>15\/10\/2011:<\/strong> Eurotech Renewables Ltd wins the Inaugural Brecan Mooney Award for Geothermal Installation\u00a0of the Year 2011. Refer to Awards page.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/dev.geothermalassociation.ie\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Eurotech-Goes-Green-Winning-Walk.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"Eurotech Goes Green Winning Walk\" src=\"http:\/\/dev.geothermalassociation.ie\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Eurotech-Goes-Green-Winning-Walk-500x367.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"367\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>17\/08\/2011:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/dev.geothermalassociation.ie\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/2011-06-15-GAI-TRIP-AGM-IKEA-photos.pdf\">Photos from IKEA Field Trip and AGM of 15 June 2011 <\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>16\/06\/2011:<\/strong>\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/dev.geothermalassociation.ie\/wp\/presentations.html\">Geothermal Association Conference 2011 Presentations<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>10\/05\/2011:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/dev.geothermalassociation.ie\/wp\/2011mayconf.html\">GAI Conference \u201cGeothermal Energy\u00a0Progress and developments in Ireland and Internationally\u201d, Kilkenny<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>16\/10\/2013\u00a0 We are proud to have SEAI as the main sponsor of the 3rd GAI conference taking place next month. See Events page and conference page for more details. 21\/6\/13 Strategic Research Priorities for Geothermal Technology (heating &amp; cooling) and Geothermal Electricity online! (via http:\/\/www.egec.com\/) The Renewable Heating and Cooling Platform&#8217;s Geothermal Technology Panel has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.geothermalassociation.ie\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.geothermalassociation.ie\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.geothermalassociation.ie\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.geothermalassociation.ie\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.geothermalassociation.ie\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dev.geothermalassociation.ie\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":328,"href":"https:\/\/dev.geothermalassociation.ie\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions\/328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.geothermalassociation.ie\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.geothermalassociation.ie\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.geothermalassociation.ie\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}