Fionn Rogan

UCC

Dr Fionn Rogan is a research fellow in the MaREI Centre at the Environmental Research Institute (ERI) at UCC

The difficulty of reducing emissions in a period of increasing demand highlights a tension between sustainability and innovation

If past energy innovation has been slow, all future energy innovation must be fast to deal with unprecedented challenges

The 1973 oil crisis pushed energy into the headlines and led to massive changes across society

How solar energy got cheap is a story of luck, science, policy, tenacity and climate change

The Climate Action Plan will require a level of engagement and transformation last seen when electricity came to rural Ireland

As the disappearance of the lamplighters from our cities showed, energy transitions have a huge bearing on how we earn a living

Opinion: we can take several important lessons about innovation that are relevant today from the history of the assembly line

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