Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 16 July 2025

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy

Climate Change Targets 2026-2030: Electricity Sector

2:00 am

Mr. Nicholas Tarrant:

TAMS is a great scheme for farmers installing solar panels. The grant level is 60% of the capital cost up to €90,000. In TAMS 3, tranche 8 is open for applicants. It is designed for self consumption and it makes a significant amount of sense, particularly for dairy farmers because of the electricity load they have. If people want to export, there is grid reinforcement work to do around that so there is the option - maybe not with TAMS support because the scheme is designed for self consumption. In general, if people are looking to export and if they are in a rural area where the network needs to be upgraded, in general, they have to take the cost of those upgrades.

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