Taking a moment to look back at the last eighteen months of CIGRE Ireland NGN.
It’s all in our Annual Report 2025 and Q1 & Q2 2026 Newsletter.
2025 highlights:
- Young members made up 56% of CIGRE Ireland membership (up from 47%)
- Record entries to the NGN Presentation Competition
- Two NGN Ireland members among just 10 engineers selected worldwide for the first CIGRE / China Southern Power Grid exchange programme in Guangzhou
- A site visit to Turlough Hill, Ireland’s only pumped hydro station
- The ESB NGN Poster Competition and the UCD Final Year Project Award H1
2026 highlights:
- Inside the valve hall at Ballyadam, the Irish converter station for the Celtic Interconnector
- CIGRE Ireland at PowerGrid 2026 in MTU
- Ireland’s turn on the “Present Me Your National Power System” global webinar series
- Industry news, from the Iberian blackout final report to Ireland’s solar records in May
Huge thanks to Nothando Thwala for putting both together.
Both documents are published below.
Cigre Ireland NGN Annual Report 2025
Cigre Ireland NGN Q1/Q2 2026 Newsletter
Applications for the NGN committee open at the end of the year. Got an event idea or work you’d like featured? Get in touch at cigreirelandngn@gmail.com
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