Ms Justina Corcoran:

This is in demand. As regards people and the solar PV, there is a great deal of public interest in the scheme in that the numbers have just gone through the roof. There were 6,000 applications in December alone last year and the figures have doubled. There is great public interest in the solar PV and it very much seems to have taken off. We are just not seeing the same numbers of people looking to get the wind energy connections.

There are 70,000 microgen connections at the moment on the grid and all of them are around the solar PV. Wind is just not an area that individuals, homeowners and householders are looking to get support on at the moment but it is obviously something we can look into.