Michelle Mulherin (Fine Gael)
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I have a couple of questions on micro-generation, which is key. It appears from what Mr. McCormick said that there is no technical or regulatory framework so if we were to proceed right now, micro-generation would be offline and people would not be feeding into the grid. Mr. McCormick said EirGrid tried to anticipate renewables coming online and that, if wind was forecast for a few days, the company would try to stabilise the network. If somebody was microgenerating, how would that work? Does Eirgrid tell a generator what the forecast is and that it will need to take capacity from it, and from all the other wind farms in an area?