Mark Mahon

Midlands, Green economy, climate action & energy innovation. occasional engineer. Views/likes my own.

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@KillianM2 Kinnity Castle

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Jim Gavin, shortest political career ever.. 🤦‍♂️

[Mark Mahon @MP_Mahon]

@EnergyCloud_org @offalycoco @OffalyClimate Excellent initiative redirecting excess renewable power to providing hot water for homes facing tough choices on energy costs.

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View from Croghan Hill

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Finally tracked down the end of the rainbow ☘️

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The latest addition to Offaly and the Midlands transition to Green Energy ⚡️🎄💪

[RTÉ Business @RTEbusiness]

One of Ireland's newest wind farms, SSE's 101MW Yellow River wind farm in Rhode in Co Offaly, is now producing its first power after its connection and energisation onto the country's national grid by EirGrid. https://t.co/uNzwidyARg

[Vivienne Clarke @_vivclarke]

OFFALY final Tally. Fianna Fáil vote down 10% from 2020, Fine Gael vote up 4.5%, Carol Nolan's vote is up 10%, she is at 8021 in the tallies with a projected quota of 9133.

[Mark Mahon @MP_Mahon]

@mcmnorris 🎯

[Mark Mahon @MP_Mahon]

Public Works Contracts are fundamentally based on the allocation of risk. This can’t be done properly if the risks aren’t adequately identified and sufficiently mitigated within a detailed design at the outset, pre-tender. #TonightVMTV

[Mark Mahon @MP_Mahon]

Anyone in construction contracts knows that the Client either adequately funds the project upfront (in scoping, design & site investigation) or pays dearly on the back end during construction. #TonightVMTV

[Irish Planning Law @PlanningLaw_ie]

1 of 2 An Bord Pleanála has permitted (318436) a 25MW solar farm 2km E of Portarlington in the extreme SE of Offaly in the Offaly/Laois/Kildare borderlands on a Third Party Appeal against the permission of @OffalyCoCo.

[Mark Mahon @MP_Mahon]

Offaly featuring prominently in the RESS4 auction results released today, with 195MW offered across 3 solar projects, Garr 85MW, Kilcush 50MW & Treascon 60MW, representing 20% of the solar offer quantity nationally 💪 #Offaly Green Energy County ☀️⚡️🔋

[Mark Mahon @MP_Mahon]

Hard to understand the scaremongering approach to solar farms on Prime Time. A weak treatment of the subject, without any meaningful exploration of the basis of people’s reservations. #rtept

[Mark Mahon @MP_Mahon]

First time at the Energy & Farm Diversification Show at ⁦@GurteenCollege⁩. Excellent knowledge sharing on energy efficiency, renewables, biogas, climate change & land use. Well done ⁦@teagasc⁩ ⁦@TipperaryCoCo⁩ ⁦@TUS_ie⁩ ⁦@MacranaFeirme⁩

[Mark Mahon @MP_Mahon]

Hard to believe that England haven’t won the Euros since it started in 1960! #EURO2024 #ESPENG #ENGSPA

[Mark Mahon @MP_Mahon]

European elections are important to a point but the great pity with the scheduling is that the Local Elections are effectively invisible. The closest form of democracy to the people play a big part in housing, infrastructure, communities & more, is worthy of debate. #rtept

[Mark Mahon @MP_Mahon]

Advancing private wires is critical re synergies between renewables and enterprise says @DonalFlavin of @IDA_EDTransform at @BordnaMona Accelerate Green. Enabling private side micro grids would be a game changer for collocation of renewables and industry, re the grid bottleneck.

[Mark Mahon @MP_Mahon]

Tom Donnellan of @BordnaMona selling the benefits of Energy Parks to local authorities from increased rates base. The Midlands look forward too to the benefit from enhanced value added and higher skilled jobs in green energy enterprise.
#AccelerateGreen #JustTransition

[Mark Mahon @MP_Mahon]

Unfortunately Smart tariffs are designed to reduce pressure on the creaking grid, not to reduce cost for consumers. Some consumers may save by changing their pattern of usage, but can’t make an informed decision as their usage information is not available in advance. #rtept

[Mark Mahon @MP_Mahon]

Great to see geothermal surveying planned for Offaly in 2024. The Midlands is a hive of renewable projects but geothermal is the renewable that is most underutilised. #Offaly #GreenEnergy

[Geological Survey IE @GeolSurvIE]

Geological Survey Ireland @Dept_ECC have published the 2024 Activity Map, detailing key projects and research areas for the year. From groundwater mapping to geoheritage audits, This is where we'll be: https://t.co/7NeNL4f3Ox…