Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 16 April 2019

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment

Microgeneration Support Scheme Bill 2017: Discussion (Resumed)

Photo of Eamon RyanEamon Ryan (Dublin Bay South, Green Party)
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If we get up to the levels about which we are talking - and we are very far away from them so it will not be any time soon - the underlying difficulty in the development of renewables is that they always reduce the wholesale price. That even applies in respect of wind energy in Ireland, but it could also eventually apply in respect of solar on very sunny days. It would kill the incentive.