{"id":270803,"date":"2026-01-29T21:46:26","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T21:46:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/270803\/"},"modified":"2026-01-29T21:46:26","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T21:46:26","slug":"the-potential-is-huge-ireland-signs-historic-north-sea-pact-to-drive-offshore-renewable-energy-projects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/270803\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018The potential is huge\u2019 \u2013 Ireland signs \u2018historic\u2019 North Sea pact to drive offshore renewable energy projects"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Energy Minister Darragh O\u2019Brien (right) with his German counterpart Katherina Reiche at the North Sea Summit in Hamburg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/e_a638_c6e89cdadaec.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Energy Minister Darragh O\u2019Brien (right) with his German counterpart Katherina Reiche at the North Sea Summit in Hamburg<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Ireland\u2019s commitment to the development of a European \u201cgreen power plant\u201d in the North Sea has been hailed as a \u201chistoric\u201d step in the switch away from fossil fuels.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Energy Minister Darragh O\u2019Brien yesterday attended the North Sea Summit in Hamburg and signed a declaration on cross-border co-operation in the development and defence of offshore renewable energy infrastructure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Energy Minister Darragh O\u2019Brien (right) with his German counterpart Katherina Reiche at the North Sea Summit in Hamburg&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":270804,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[17979,2885,25746,3025,24119,246,1712,1814,292,61,60,5151,298,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-270803","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-belgium","9":"tag-climate-change","10":"tag-darragh-obrien","11":"tag-denmark","12":"tag-eavan-murray","13":"tag-environment","14":"tag-european-commission","15":"tag-france","16":"tag-germany","17":"tag-ie","18":"tag-ireland","19":"tag-netherlands","20":"tag-norway","21":"tag-science"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=270803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270803\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/270804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=270803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=270803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=270803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}