Ireland's clean energy options to be examined at Carrick-on-Suir event on Friday, March 10

Economist Colm McCarthy and electrical engineer Denis Duff will speak on Ireland's clean energy options at an event in Carrick-on-Suir's Nano Nagle Community Resource Centre on Friday, March 10 from 6pm to 8pm.

The event is being organised by the Suir Valley Environmental Group. The two guest speakers will address the energy issues that will affect communities throughout the country.

It's the government’s job to drive policy on factors of public concern: economic, social, public health, the environment and, crucially, energy security. 

A review of the energy supply crisis will not be much use if it fails to come up with new policy options to supplement current policy that is clearly insufficient on its own. We are not in a position to guarantee an electricity supply from renewable resources.

Colm McCarthy is a well known economist, who has written extensively on economics and public finance and has worked with the ESRI, the Central Bank and UCD, sat on a string of state boards and advised a number of governments about public sector cost savings.

Denis Duff, meanwhile, is a chartered engineer with extensive experience in power generation both in Ireland and abroad.