The Kerryman (South Kerry Edition)
Tech day hears about electric revolution
THE ESB’s plans to revolutionise how electricity is delivered to customers on the Dingle Peninsula were among the items explained at an event in the Dingle Hub on Sunday.
Local man and ESB Networks engineer Barry Bambury was there to explain the practical applications of ESB Network’s plans for Dingle. He outlined how the new technologies for using low carbon electricity would work at home and in business. These developments will take place over the next 18 months.
As a start, Electric Ireland has a couple of electric vehicles based in town and will use them to test how successfully their batteries can be used as storage units for domestic electricity, which can then be fed back into the national grid when not needed by their owner. This is part of testing by Electric Ireland of a model for a low carbon model of electricity supply in Dingle.
Kids got hands on experience of electricity generation as used in everything from wind turbines to hydro electric stations. It couldn’t be simpler – they turned a crank on hand-operated dynamos (like you might have found on a ‘high nellie’) to produce electricity.
Serious Lego Play facilitator and Centre for Entrepeneurship and Enterprise Development Manager, Breda O’Dwyer encouraged children of all ages to build an electric car using Lego. As part of her continuing support and development of young entrepreneurs Breda will host a five day camp for young people during which they will make a film or develop a game on the benefits of a Lo-Carbon Environment and in the process they will learn to apply innovation to solve problems. This camp will take place in Pobalscoil Chorca Dhuibhne in June. For further details contact info@creancentre.com
The Renewable Energy technologies for the future open day was organised as part of National TechWeek by Deirdre de Bhailís, manager of the Dingle Hub and Séamus Ó Hara of NEWKD. A draw held on the day for Snap Circuits Green Energy Kit was won by John Sheehy,