THE UCD Sailing Team, powered by Ireland’s leading independent renewable energy provider Energia, won the 2016 Colours Sailing Championships in Dun Laoghaire recently.
The annual UCD Vs TCD Colours Championship was a closely run contest that saw the Southside college becoming this year’s winners.
UCD also won the ladies competition, the alumni competition and the Gold Fleet. UCD have won every national university sailing event so far this year.
Robbie Hynes, UCD Sailing Club said: “Energia have been supporting us for almost three years now and we really appreciate it. Whether it’s competing in Irish competitions like today’s Colours Championship or international ones like the Student Yachting World Cup, their support is a great help.”
Michelle Kells, Key Account Manager at Energia said they were delighted to be powering the efforts of UCD Sailing Team.
“As a leading provider of renewable energy on the island of Ireland, we know all about harnessing the power of wind,” he said.
“Energia Renewables is among Ireland’s leading providers of sustainable green energy and 25 per cent of Ireland’s wind power is provided through Energia to homes and businesses.
“Energia has invested over €300m in wind farms since 2008 and currently supplies over 795MWs of renewable energy. This will rise to over 1,000MWs by mid-2017 with over 200MWs of projects presently in development.”
Energia has a 23 per cent market share of the Irish business electricity and gas market supplying the energy needs of over 60,000 customers.