{"id":553041,"date":"2026-07-16T17:26:16","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T17:26:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/553041\/"},"modified":"2026-07-16T17:26:16","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T17:26:16","slug":"calls-for-government-investment-to-match-kerrys-contribution-to-powering-ireland-with-renewable-energy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/553041\/","title":{"rendered":"Calls for Government investment to match Kerry\u2019s contribution to powering Ireland with renewable energy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Government is being asked to match Kerry\u2019s contribution to powering Ireland with investment that delivers jobs, enterprise growth and stronger communities.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tralee.ie\/tralee-chamber\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tralee Chamber Alliance<\/a> hosted an event in the town today bringing together leaders from business, state agencies, local government and education to discuss Kerry&#8217;s role in Ireland&#8217;s energy future.<\/p>\n<p>Chief Executive of Tralee Chamber Alliance, Colette O&#8217;Connor says Kerry is playing its part in helping to power Ireland.<\/p>\n<p>She says the county needs to see more benefits in terms of investment and job creation to help drive growth locally:<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Noel Cunniffe is the CEO of Wind Energy Ireland and he also addressed the event, and acknowledged Kerry\u2019s role in producing a significant amount of wind energy.<\/p>\n<p>As well as the economic benefits that renewable energy can bring, the challenges facing businesses and communities were also discussed at today\u2019s event.<\/p>\n<p>These include grid capacity and issues around planning.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Cunniffe says investing in grid infrastructure needs to be a priority to help attract future industry into the county:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Government is being asked to match Kerry\u2019s contribution to powering Ireland with investment that delivers jobs, enterprise&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":553042,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,975,60,43],"class_list":["post-553041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-investment","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553041","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=553041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553041\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/553042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=553041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=553041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=553041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}