Projects
The region has a large and diverse range of innovative Smart projects across a variety of areas including ICT, Energy, Transport, Water, Health, Tourism, Education.
Cork City Council Retrofitting for Sustainable Smart Social Housing
Cork City Council’s Housing Directorate is implementing a number of smart retrofitting projects across a portion of its 10,500 social... Read More
Cork City Council Launches Innovative Air Quality Strategy
Cork City Council is the first local authority in Ireland to produce an Air Quality Strategy. This strategy follows on... Read More
UP-STAIRS project
The Horizon 2020 UP-STAIRS project is a citizen engagement and energy collection initiative which aims to develop a standard framework... Read More
ACT4ECO an eLearning platform on energy consumption in the home
Behind Act4Eco there is a consortium made by 9 partners coming from all over Europe. The real strength of Act4Eco... Read More
MiniStor (Minimal Size Thermal and Electrical Energy Storage System for In-Situ Residential Installation)
Creating Europe’s Sustainable Future MiniStor (Minimal Size Thermal and Electrical Energy Storage System for In-Situ Residential Installation) is an EU-funded... Read More
Sustainable Energy Communities in Cork
A Sustainable Energy Community (SEC) is a community in which everyone works together to develop a sustainable energy system for... Read More
Deep Energy retrofit in City Library
In the second half of 2017, Cork City Council carried out a deep energy retrofit of the Main City Library... Read More
MOEEBIUS – Modelling Optimization of Energy Efficiency in Buildings for Urban Sustainability
Project Summary MOEEBIUS aims to improve District Energy Performance Predictability by People Behaviour and demand Modelling to facilitate new ESCO... Read More
The Cooperative ENergy Trading System (CENTS) project
The Cooperative ENergy Trading System (CENTS) is a collaborative project coordinated by the IERC and will rely on the industry experience from Smart MPower,... Read More
EnABLES: Test before Invest
ACCESS TO FACILITIES & EXPERTISE EnABLES is a H2020 project that integrates key European research infrastructures in powering the... Read More
Support Tools for Community Renewable Energy
A project led by the Centre for Marine and Renewable Energy Ireland (MaREI) has secured almost 300K in funding under... Read More
Ballyvolane Fire Station Battery Storage
In August 2016, Cork City Council installed 42 solar PV panels on the roof of Ballyvolane Fire Station. The solar... Read More
Energy Efficiency Projects with SEAI Better Energy Communities
Northside Enterprise Centre and Cork City Council have implemented a number of projects across Cork City which have been funded... Read More
Sirus Group – Building Energy Management
The indigenous Irish company, Sirus Group are specialists in providing energy management solutions for buildings. We have been on the... Read More
E2District – Energy Research Project at Nimbus
E2District is a European Commission Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Project which is being coordinated by the Nimbus Research Centre. The... Read More
The National Sustainable Building Energy Test Bed at Nimbus
Nimbus Centre manages the “National Sustainable Building Energy Test-bed (NSBET)”. This test-bed is a whole-building energy and power management technology... Read More
Cork City Council’s Electric Vehicle Fleet
Cork City Council has taken the lead nationally by putting up to 76 electric vehicles (EVs) on the road and... Read More