If you really wanted to fund micro-generation , a very small fraction of the PSO would get the industry up and running and like the uk create thousands of jobs. As you know ESBN will no longer offer any feed in tariff from feb 2012 this puts the industry back to the 2006 status no tariff no meter no industry and no policy .Vat removed in today's budget was only done on the back of revenue losing a reclaim of vat case taken by an Irish farmer, they lost the case and then appealed the decision on the spurious claim that the cable for the wind turbine was not shown separately on the invoice, why would any farmer now invest is micro-generation with no tariff or meter available ,this is not the way to develop a smart clean tech industry ,please look at the numbers over three years only 400 hundred microgen producers out of a proposed 4000 - just 10% took the ESBN offer . SEAI are now over two years into the pilot microgen trial no results what a wast of money where is this report . Almost every Irish company specialising in microgen is now gone out of business or gone to the uk exiled . Time to call in the ECB sorry PSO.
Paul Carberry
Posted on 6 Dec 2011 9:31 pm
Dear Minister Rabbit,
If you really wanted to fund micro-generation , a very small fraction of the PSO would get the industry up and running and like the uk create thousands of jobs. As you know ESBN will no longer offer any feed in tariff from feb 2012 this puts the industry back to the 2006 status no tariff no meter no industry and no policy .Vat removed in today's budget was only done on the back of revenue losing a reclaim of vat case taken by an Irish farmer, they lost the case and then appealed the decision on the spurious claim that the cable for the wind turbine was not shown separately on the invoice, why would any farmer now invest is micro-generation with no tariff or meter available ,this is not the way to develop a smart clean tech industry ,please look at the numbers over three years only 400 hundred microgen producers out of a proposed 4000 - just 10% took the ESBN offer . SEAI are now over two years into the pilot microgen trial no results what a wast of money where is this report . Almost every Irish company specialising in microgen is now gone out of business or gone to the uk exiled . Time to call in the ECB sorry PSO.