ELECTRIC.IE • The Magazine & Website for the Irish Electrical Industry • 59 Industry News Construction commences on Ireland’s first purposebuilt carbon neutral brewery in Kildare The sod has been turned on Diageo’s new €200 million state-of-the-art carbon neutral brewery in Littleconnell, Newbridge, Co. Kildare. The new facility will brew lagers and ales including Rockshore, Harp, Hop House 13, Smithwick’s, Kilkenny and Carlsberg. With a capacity of 2 million hectolitres, it will be the second largest brewing operation in Ireland after St. James’s Gate and support the future growth of Diageo Ireland’s beer brands. The state-of-the-art brewery will be powered with 100% renewable energy and will Industry News In July, the sod turned on new state-of-the-art €200 million brewery that will brew Diageo's lagers and ales. harness the latest process technology to minimise overall energy and water consumption. The target date for the brewery to begin production is 2026 and it will facilitate the growth of overall beer exports from Ireland. It will also facilitate enhanced capacity for the production of the fast-growing Guinness 0.0 at the traditional home of Guinness at St James’s Gate in Dublin. The Minister of State for Agriculture and TD for Kildare South, Martin Heydon, joined senior leaders for the turning of the sod event in Littleconnell, to express the Government’s full support for the brewery that will support up to 1000 jobs both onsite and offsite during the construction phase of the brewery. The new brewery has also received crucial support from the IDA and Enterprise Ireland. (L-R) Colin O'Brien, Category Head, Global Beer Supply at Diageo; Jenny Melia, Executive Director of Enterprise Ireland and Minister of State for Agriculture Martin Heydon at the Diageo sod turning event. Launch of new Desigo Essentials Modbus I/O modules from Siemens They can be used with any Modbus compatible controller, including the Connect Box and the PXC4/5/7 automation level controllers. They can be directly integrated using the ABT software to the Modbus port(s) of the PXC controllers from Siemens. There are three variants: • EM1.8D: 8 digital inputs • EM1.8R: 8 relay outputs (NO contacts) • EM1.8U: 8 universal inputs and outputs (resistive and analogue inputs/outputs or digital inputs, configurable) Siemens has announced the release of its Desigo Essentials Extension Modules to complement the existing TXM Module range and offer customers greater choice and flexibility. Though they maintain the look and feel of the existing modules, they are smaller and easy to configure, with no software required to setup. They also offer the potential for cost efficiencies, enabling connections with datapoints to be made more easily, a particular advantage in more remote areas of a building. They require a 24V AC or DC supply. They can also be used in conjunction with Desigo Optic, a BMS platform specifically designed to offer an open, powerful and scalable software solution for one to many buildings of any size. It features a ‘single pane of glass’ interface to visualise and control HVAC, lighting and energy performance functions with a market leading dashboard builder. Desigo Optic brings the latest IoT technology to applications such as schools, sports facilities, smaller hotels and retail outlets. It enables optimisation of a building’s efficiency and comfort, provides the opportunity to reduce costs and allows a streamlining of performance. For further information on Siemens Building Products www.siemens.co.uk/ buildingtechnologies
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