Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 11 October 2022
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action
Retrofitting Schemes: Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland
Dr. Ciaran Byrne:
I thank the Deputy. We are in progress with that scheme. We have submitted and completed a business case, we have worked with the Department on that and we are finalising the legal elements of the scheme with our partner providers. As soon as we have those bottomed out, we will be rolling it out and we will be putting pressure on. The quarter 2 timeline for deliverables was probably somewhat ambitious because this work is in addition to everybody's existing tasks. There are obligations on energy providers. This is not an obligation on them; it is a co-operative piece. That is why it has taken somewhat longer than we would have anticipated. We are close to rolling it out now.
On the second question, inverters are being included in the package. Batteries are not being included because of the cost relative to the benefits of involved.
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