Spirit of Ireland: The Path to Energy Independence

Spirit of Ireland:  The Path to Energy Independence

About the Speech:

Professor Igor Shvets and Mr Graham O’Donnell of the Spirit of Ireland Group presented and discussed the group’s recently announced strategy to make Ireland energy independent within 5 years and a net exporter of energy thereafter through the large-scale deployment of wind farms and hydro storage on the West Coast of Ireland.

About the Speakers:

Igor Shvets (46) was born and grew up in Ukraine. He graduated from MFTI, one of the leading Soviet Universities in 1986 with an MSc in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, with a Certificate of Excellence.  He completed a PhD in 1990 specialising in materials science. 

Graham O’Donnell is an Electrical and Electronics Engineer with over 20 years in control and communications of international power networks. He holds an Honours Diploma in Electrical Engineering from DIT Kevin Street and is an Honours B.Sc.(Eng.) graduate from Trinity College Dublin. He also won a Post Graduate Scholarship to the University of Paris to study Applied Systems.

Further information on the Spirit of Ireland is available here