Pizza, paperwork and positivity – an energy lecturer’s real-life lessons on taking his home from G to A-rated

Renovating his century-old home taught Dr Paul Deane, a lecturer in Clean Energy Futures at University College Cork, things his textbooks never could

Dr Paul Deane with his children Mikey and Cara outside their newly renovated A-rated house near Clonakilty, Co Cork. Photo: John Allen/Provision

Inside the four walls of the lecture theatre, Dr Paul Deane is an expert, deftly explaining the intricacies of energy systems and how to green them.

Within the four walls of his newly-purchased, G-rated, century-old cottage, he realised he had a lot to learn.

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