Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 12 June 2024

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Use of Agricultural Land for Renewable Energy: ESB Networks

Photo of Johnny MythenJohnny Mythen (Wexford, Sinn Fein)
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ESB Networks has a policy role on the use of the land. Obviously it is another form of income saving for farmers. As this is the farming committee, has the organisation a policy to promote and explain the savings to farmers? Maybe the organisation can now do a process. If I was a farmer in the morning and wanted to apply in order to attach solar panels to my sheds, that would be a fairly big thing because the energy generated would run the farm and save money. Has the organisation got a policy on that?