Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 4 May 2022
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Solar Energy and the Agricultural Industry: Discussion
Dr. John Upton:
The targets are certainly ambitious, as they should be. The work I have done shows that up to 400 MW hours of electricity could be generated on farms, which would offset consumption if 26 kWp of panels is installed per farm. There are no technical barriers to achieving that according to my research.