Denis Naughten (Roscommon-Galway, Independent) | Oireachtas source

I am actively looking at that at the moment. I am concerned that Electric Ireland has withdrawn the scheme for new customers. I am surprised the other operators never offered it. Electric Ireland was the only company that offered access to the grid for microgeneration. Deputy Eamon Ryan noted during the debate on the Energy Bill 2016 that there are issues in regard to microgeneration having regard to stability on the grid where significant numbers of projects are involved. We do not have a large number of microgeneration projects currently. No more than the discussion we had at the select committee earlier on today, this is something we are looking at actively and it is something we are going to look at next Wednesday when we discuss the Energy Bill again. Access to the grid is only one aspect of this. Another aspect is the stability of the grid when one has a large number of generators on it. There is also the cost aspect and the requirement for smart metering of the income to be generated. There are a number of complexities which we are actively looking at.

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