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- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Renewable Energy Generation (14 May 2024)
Catherine Connolly: 62. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment further to Parliamentary Question No. 177 of 16 April 2024, the status of the community-led projects that were successful in RESS 2; the number that remain in the process; if these projects are on track to energise by 2025; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21571/24]
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Renewable Energy Generation (14 May 2024)
Catherine Connolly: ...relates to the renewable electricity support scheme. I have a particular interest in it because having community involvement is an essential part of the solution to being sustainable in Ireland. What is the status of the community-led projects under the renewable electricity support scheme 2? How many remain in the process, and when will they be energised? Will it be 2024, 2025 or 2026?
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Renewable Energy Generation (14 May 2024)
Ossian Smyth: Through the first two renewable electricity support scheme, RESS, auctions, my Department has provided pathways and supports for communities to participate in renewable energy projects through the application of a community projects category. Ten community projects were successful in the RESS 2 auction. Of these, eight signed implementation agreements to deliver under the RESS 2 terms and...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Renewable Energy Generation (14 May 2024)
Catherine Connolly: ...will be announced in the next few weeks. A climate emergency was declared in 2019, as he well knows. The renewable electricity support scheme was introduced in 2018. It is now six years later, and we seem to be limping on and limping on. I am really trying to find out information about the first RESS scheme. I did not ask about that specifically tonight, but my question is based on a...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Renewable Energy Generation (14 May 2024)
Ossian Smyth: I start by acknowledging that community energy is really important. It creates a sense of ownership and belonging and the mechanisms that might work in the commercial sector have not worked in the community. The mechanism of auction has not proved appropriate in the community sector. It is because of this that a new scheme is being launched. There was extensive engagement with communities...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Renewable Energy Generation (14 May 2024)
Catherine Connolly: I do not share the same faith with the Minister of State, although I share the importance of community involvement. I will repeat that this has been going on from 2018 to 2024 and we are limping on and limping on. I have no handle on which communities have been successful. I want to share that with my own constituents in Galway. The private sector has a huge offshore plan in Sceirde that...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Renewable Energy Generation (14 May 2024)
Ossian Smyth: ...imagine it is. I do not know if there is any legal impediment to releasing it. All the Deputy has asked for is the nature of the products - whether they are solar or wind, who the projects are, and what the status is of the eight projects proceeding. I will ask the Minister to provide the Deputy with more details on that. I do not have details of those particular eight projects, and I...