Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 9 April 2014
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications
Developments in Renewable Energy Technologies and Practices: SEAI
10:45 am
Dr. Brian Motherway:
The Deputy raised an interesting point. Some sales of stoves are harvesting the energy credits towards somebody's target while some are not. A person selling a stove who does not want the energy credit need not collect data, whereas a person selling a stove who wants the credit for themselves or a partner energy company must collect data. That is because if somebody buys a stove we need to know what he or she was doing before, for example, burning in an open fire or using a different system? We need to collect data to get a sense that the person is really having an efficiency impact. If it is a barrier and is sending people away, we need to examine it. I will follow up on that and try to find out what is happening.
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