UCD Student Energy
UCDSE
A student-led group at University College Dublin.
40.9%
of Ireland’s electricity was renewable in 2025. The 2030 target is 80%.
SEAI Interim National Energy Balance 2025. Climate Action Plan 2025.
5 GW
of offshore wind by 2030. Rising to 37 GW by 2050.
Powering Prosperity. Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment, 2024.
87%
of the global energy mix was still fossil fuel in 2024.
Energy Institute Statistical Review of World Energy 2025.
$1 trillion
a year goes to electricity generation. About $400 billion goes to the grids that have to carry it. Grid spending has grown at less than half the pace.
IEA World Energy Outlook 2025.
A bigger student voice.
These problems aren’t impossible to solve. Ambitious students have the capacity to meaningfully contribute to the energy issues facing the world.
UCDSE will give students a voice on the topics of the renewable transition and the grid that will carry that power.
The International Floating Wind Challenge.
The first initiative.
A small competitive team. We design and build a floating wind structure, then take it to the water.
This is where it starts.
There will be more events and hackathons, bringing together people from all different courses who have something to say.
The work needs more than engineers.
It also needs economics, policy, design, computing, law, and anyone else ready to take part in tackling the problems we face in the energy sector. UCDSE is being made to hold that mix.
There is a lot more to come.
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