{"id":75,"date":"2011-11-28T13:43:53","date_gmt":"2011-11-28T13:43:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thebizsense.com\/ie\/?p=75"},"modified":"2011-11-28T13:46:03","modified_gmt":"2011-11-28T13:46:03","slug":"openhydro-receive-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thebizsense.com\/ie\/news\/openhydro-receive-award","title":{"rendered":"Openhydro receive Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_76\" style=\"width: 541px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thebizsense.com\/ie\/files\/2011\/11\/openhydro.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-76\" class=\"size-full wp-image-76 \" title=\"Openhydro receive Award\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thebizsense.com\/ie\/files\/2011\/11\/openhydro.jpg\" alt=\"Openhydro receive Award\" width=\"531\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thebizsense.com\/ie\/files\/2011\/11\/openhydro.jpg 590w, https:\/\/www.thebizsense.com\/ie\/files\/2011\/11\/openhydro-300x127.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 531px) 100vw, 531px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-76\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Openhydro receive Award<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Irish tidal energy technology company, OpenHydro, has been honoured at the 2011 Ireland\u00a0 France Business Awards for their outstanding company performance in 2011 and promotion of bilateral trade and investment between Ireland and France.\u00a0 At an awards ceremony held in Paris, OpenHydro was selected as The Best Irish Company in France owing to its major technological breakthrough in the area of tidal technology, while in the process linking up with two major French companies, EDF and DCNS.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Presented by the Ireland France Chamber of Commerce and NetworkIrlande, the Irish France Business Awards were hosted at the Embassy of Ireland in Paris, France.\u00a0 Ambassador of Ireland to France, H.E. Paul Kavanagh and Ambassador of France to Ireland, H.E. Mme. Emmanuelle d\u2019Achon attended the prestigious annual event.<\/p>\n<p>Gerry Halpenny, president of the Ireland France Chamber of Commerce said: \u201cThese awards serve to highlight the important contribution of both Irish and French companies to promoting business and investment between our two countries.\u00a0 Despite a difficult economic climate, this year\u2019s entries show that significant bilateral business opportunities still exist and with the right supports, there is excellent scope for further growth.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The jury agreed that OpenHydro Technology epitomises the potential for developing energy and environmental prospects between two countries, showing how new ideas backed by capital investment can provide revolutionary solutions to the global energy crisis.<\/p>\n<p>Accepting the award for OpenHydro, James Ives, chief executive, said: \u201cOver the last two years we\u2019ve been very privileged to work with two incredible French companies, EDF and DCNS.\u00a0 Both these companies share our vision for tidal energy and with their support last month, we deployed our first tidal turbine in French waters.\u00a0 This is the first stage in a project which in 2012 is set to be the world\u2019s first large-scale, grid-connected tidal energy farm\u00a0 and France\u2019s first offshore tidal installation.\u00a0 We look forward to building on this partnership by developing other utility scale tidal farms in France in the future with their continued support.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this month, OpenHydro won a prestigious industry award by being named Best Company in the \u2018Other Renewable Energy\u2019 category by the Global Cleantech Association.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Irish tidal energy technology company, OpenHydro, has been honoured at the 2011 Ireland\u00a0 France Business Awards for their outstanding company performance in 2011 and promotion of bilateral trade and investment between Ireland and France.\u00a0 At an awards ceremony held in Paris, OpenHydro was selected as The Best Irish Company in France owing to its major [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":76,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[52,27,1,6],"tags":[47,51,54,5,53,55],"class_list":["post-75","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-environment","category-featured","category-news","category-technology","tag-47","tag-award","tag-france","tag-ireland","tag-openhydro","tag-tidal-energy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebizsense.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebizsense.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebizsense.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebizsense.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebizsense.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebizsense.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebizsense.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75\/revisions\/79"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebizsense.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebizsense.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebizsense.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebizsense.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}