Richard Douthwaite
Richard Douthwaite is an economist and writer with a particular interest in energy supplies and in economic growth. He is the editor of Before the Wells Run Dry – Ireland’s Transition to Renewable Energy (2003) , and To Catch the Wind - The Potential for Community Ownership of Windfarms in Ireland. (2004) With David Healy he wrote Subsidies and Emissions of Greenhouse Gases from Fossil Fuels which was published by Comhar in 2004. He was a co-founder of Feasta and edits its biennial journal, The Feasta Review.
He can be contacted at richard@douthwaite.net or on (098) 25313
Phoebe Bright
Phoebe Bright comes from a business background having worked as a consultant with companies as diverse as The London Stock Exchange, TOTAL Oil, Chase Manhattan Bank and Metropolis Recording Studios. She also found time to setup and successfully run a Flying School at Shoreham Airport in the UK. Phoebe brings her expertise in sustainable business, scenario planning and the internet to this project.
She can be contacted at: phoebebright@vividlogic.ie or (023) 55195.
Larry Staudt
Lawrence Staudt is a lecturer at Dundalk Institute of Technology, where he manages the Centre for Renewable Energy - a renewable energy research centre. He has been an engineer for ESB and Airtricity, and was engineering manager of a wind turbine company in the United States. He has been working in the field of renewable energy since 1978. He is currently chairman of the Irish Renewable Energy Council - an umbrella group of the various renewable energy associations in Ireland.
He can be contacted at: credit@dkit.ie or (042) 937 0574
Ray Byrne
Ray Byrne comes from a physics and engineering background and has worked as an electronic design engineer from 1997 to 2003 in Ireland and Switzerland for companies such as CEVA-DSP and XEMICS. In 2004 he obtained a MSc in Renewable Energy Systems Technology at Loughborough University UK and currently works as a project engineer at the Centre For Renewable Energy at Dundalk Institute of Technology. Ray brings his computer modelling skills to simulate and modify the ECCO model used in this project.
Dave Crane
Dave Crane has a background in Environmental Science, Ecological Economics and Computing. He has worked with the ECCO models for over ten years, applying it to national economies such as the UK, the EU, Australia, PR China and the Republic of Ireland. He has been affiliated with the University of Edinburgh and the Centre for Human Ecology, Edinburgh, and currently lives and works in Gloucestershire, UK.
