Renewable Energy Entrepreneur Eddie O'Connor Passes Away

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Eddie O'connor,Renewable Energy,Entrepreneur

Former Chief Executive of Bord na Móna went from being Ireland’s ‘leading polluter’ to a prominent promoter of renewable energy

The Irish businessman and renewable energy entrepreneur, Eddie O’Connor, has died. Mr O’Connor was a former CEO of Bord na Móna, the founder of Airtricity and the co-founder of Mainstream Renewables and SuperNode. A former purchasing manager with the ESB, he went on to become chief executive of Bord na Móna before a late career change.

Mr O’Connor, who was 76, switched to the renewable energy sector in the late 1990s and went on to become one of its key business figures, with his latest project the promotion of a pan-European “supergrid” for renewable energy

 

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