GE Healthcare Cork wins Green Healthcare Award at the Green Awards 2026
Looking back at the Green Awards 2026, GE Healthcare Cork took home the Green Healthcare Award, recognised earlier this year for a results-driven sustainability programme that embedded environmental responsibility into daily operations, delivering measurable reductions across key priorities through strong governance, SBTi-approved targets, and a clear pathway to Net Zero by 2050. The win sets a powerful benchmark for sustainability excellence in Ireland's healthcare sector, raising the standard of precision, credibility, and organisation-wide environmental commitment that entrants will look to match now that the 2027 awards cycle has already opened.
Teagasc Road Map Series 2030 Confirms Ireland’s €19 Billion Agri-Food Sector Is Building the World’s Most Credible Sustainable Food Proposition
The Teagasc Road Map Series 2030 provides Ireland’s most comprehensive strategic assessment of the agri-food sector’s sustainability transition and commercial outlook to 2030. With Irish food exports at €19 billion in 2025 and the world’s only national food sustainability programme, the commercial case for leading on sustainable agri-food has never been stronger.
Low Carbon secures second Lincolnshire NSIP consent as new energy secretary clears large-scale solar pipeline
Low Carbon has received DCO approval for the 400MW Beacon Fen Energy Park with 600MW co-located BESS. Two consecutive Lincolnshire NSIP consents confirm the new Secretary of State is clearing the large-scale solar pipeline.
Island Green Power wins planning for 500MW Lincolnshire BESS as co-location becomes the dominant UK project configuration
Island Green Power has received planning consent for a 49.9MW solar and 500MW BESS hybrid at Stallingborough. A 10:1 storage-to-generation ratio signals a BESS-led project using solar co-location for grid connection optimisation.
Capital Dynamics acquires Kerry BESS to close Ireland's 2.1GW long-duration storage gap
Capital Dynamics has acquired a 170MW/680MWh ready-to-build BESS at Knockanure, Co. Kerry. Ireland needs 2.4GW of long-duration storage by 2030 and has 0.29GW today, that gap is the investment thesis.
Perigus Energy's first Irish solar farm reaches full operation as 26-month RESS delivery timeline validates onshore renewables speed
Perigus Energy's 81MW Garreenleen solar farm is fully operational. Commissioned 26 months after contract award and three months after Perigus launched as an independent company, it is the first visible output of CIP's investment in the Ørsted European onshore platform.
Grant Thornton Ireland achieves SBTi validation as CSRD makes science-based targets a procurement and audit requirement
Grant Thornton Ireland has achieved SBTi validation for its net-zero targets. For a firm advising Irish clients on SBTi compliance, its own validation is a commercial credential, not just a reputational one.
Green Awards 2027 now accepting entries
The Green Awards 2027 is now open for entries, inviting businesses of all sizes to showcase their commitment to sustainable business practice ahead of the 30 October deadline. The awards gala will take place on 23 February 2027 at the Clayton Hotel, Burlington Road, bringing together hundreds of senior executives from across Ireland's sustainability community.
Ireland’s NTMA Green Finance Architecture Is Performing Ahead of Schedule and Open for Commercial Engagement
The NTMA published its Climate Action Strategy 2025–2028 Annual Review on 1 July 2026, confirming that Ireland’s sovereign green finance architecture is performing ahead of schedule. For Irish businesses, the green finance opportunity is open, well-funded and ready for engagement.
Lloyds sets £100 billion sustainable and transition finance target as banks broaden green taxonomy to capture hard-to-abate sectors
Lloyds Banking Group has announced a £100 billion sustainable and transition finance target for 2027 to 2030, incorporating transition finance for the first time. Expanding beyond purely green activities to cover hard-to-abate sector decarbonisation is the structural shift that makes the UK banking market's climate finance commitments commercially viable.
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