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Energy Act ctio ion Fuel l Poverty Conference 2019 “Together we thrive” The Din ingle le Experie ience

Brendan Tuohy

www.dinglehub.com

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Environmental Sustainability Creative Industries

Who we are…..

Digital Transformation

• Mol Teic (Dingle Creativity and

Innovation Hub)- launched in April 2017

• Shared Offices: 9 Offices, 12 LT Desks, 5 ST

Desks, 2 meeting rooms

• Networking
• Ecosystem for business, entrepreneurship,

innovation and community engagement

• Key initiatives e.g Dingle 2030

Vision: A sustainable community fostering an ecosystem to facilitate the creation

• f diverse companies with all-year, well paid jobs on the Dingle Peninsula

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Environmental Sustainability

Energy

April 2018: Dingle Sustainable Energy Community established Dingle 2030: Our Sustainable Future Working with the local community to explore, support and enable the low carbon transition

Transport Agriculture Marine Tourism

Energy Coach Training Funded by KETB Need identified for independent, impartial advice November 2019: course begins SEAI schemes, retrofit costs, ASHP’s and Solar PV’s, funding sources, assessment of advantages Energy Master Plan Final Energy Consumption: 315GWh

Top-Down Bottom-Up

Dingle 2030: Our Sustainable Future

Environmental Sustainability

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Community Engagement

Dingle 2030

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Supporting our sustainable future

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Community Awareness and Information Events 2020: Activating the Energy Citizen An enhanced programme of initiatives, events and workshops including the provision of Energy Bureau services and linkage to Young Animators Some events

• Oct 2018: Farmers Form @ Dingle Food Festival
• Apr 2019: LED Bulb Swap Event
• May 2019: Féile na Bealtaine
• Jun 2019: Comórtas Peile na Gaeltachta
• Aug 2019: Féile Liospóil
• Aug 2019: IoT Farm Ambassador Workshop
• Oct 2019: Farmers Form @ Dingle Food Festival
• Oct 2019: Socio-economic Study
• Nov 2019: Energy Master Plan
• Jan 2020: Anaerobic Digestion Feasibility Study

300+ bulbs 15,300 kWh/year 13.8 tonnes CO2/ year

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Transport

EV Charging Infrastructure

• 119 potential charge points
• Submission to current RRDF

call for 25 charge points Sustainable Transport

• New public bus service developed by

Local Link Kerry, awaiting approval from NTA

• Plans to trial biogas and electric buses
• n new routes

IoT Innovation

• Capability required (i) to check online

if the charger is working and (ii) to pre-book a charging/parking space before arriving

Transport Infrastructure (4) Private Car Park – Tourist POI (6) Significant Employer (7) Public On Street (18) Public Car Park – Tourist POI (18) Public Car Parks – Beaches (20) Public Car Parks (46)

Environmental Sustainability / Digital Transformation

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Engaged Research

It’s getting busy here!

Projects underway on Dingle Peninsula.

• EU Horizon 2020 SKIN Project (Teagasc)
• Interreg RegEnergy Project (WIT)
• EU Horizon 2020 HotMaps (Kerry Co Co)
• Proposal for EU Horizon 2020 FLARE Project (ITT, Teagasc)
• Socio-economic study of the Dingle Peninsula (NEWKD)

Supporting businesses, job creation and development of innovation capacity in the Low Energy Society

Living Lab Complimentary Projects

Ding ingle Hu Hub/SEC – MAR AREI – Co Community En Engagement

Steering Committee for EMP

Energy Master Plan EMP ESBN Project Dingle Sustainable Transport Bionergy and Anaerobic Digestion)

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North East and West Kerry Development (NEWKD)

• Engaging with

community groups

• Engaging with

farmers

• Engaging with

young people Kerry Education and Training Board (KETB)

• Training and

upskilling of local tradespeople

• Local Training

Initiative on Energy Coaching

• Model house in

Training Centre for training of tradespeople and

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Steering Committee on Anaerobic Digestion - Energy, Transport Buses on Dingle Peninsula – LLK, NTA EV Parking, Charging and Booking System

ESB Project Board for Project Dingle MAREI Research

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Looking to the future……..

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Future Changing Mindsets Dingle Workhouse 2.0

• Dingle Hub Young Advisory

Board

• Coder Dojo & Techspace
• Animation Workshops
• Coiste Timpeallacht

Rural Regeneration

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• Optimise community engagement
• through new forms of community engagement;
• that recognises the need for significant time commitment of local volunteers;
• that supports the volunteers adequately; and
• involves policy makers (at national and local levels)
• Engaged research is important for developing innovation capacity in the local community

and for informing policy, research and outreach

• Training, upskilling and education for Transition to Low Carbon are important
• Foster the creation of new start-ups and sustainable, well-paid, fulfilling jobs in local

communities

• While there will be some technical challenges, the most difficult challenges will be

changing minds, hearts and behaviour

• Political and community leadership is essential all levels

Some conclusions

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