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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Update on Quarters 1 and 2: Discussion (5 Oct 2022)

David Stanton: ...and sustainability loan scheme provides low-cost loans to farmers, fishers and SMEs. The Minister probably knows that if farmers get grant aid under the targeted agricultural modernisation scheme, TAMS, to install solar panels and so on, they cannot get paid for exporting electricity to the grid. That is a barrier to farmers using solar energy to power their enterprises. It does not...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Energy Prices: Discussion (4 Oct 2022) See 2 other results from this debate

Lynn Ruane: ...be recovered. Some of those costs exist even when the customers use very little electricity such as in a holiday home or because they have upgraded their home to A-rated status or whatever else. Perhaps some use solar or photovoltaic, PV, power for their electricity during the day but still require electricity at peak times. There is a basis for having a standing charge. It is a...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Issues (4 Oct 2022)

Peter Burke: ...conditions set out in each class of exempted development in Schedule 2 of the Regulations. Included in the planning exemptions set out in the Regulations are those applying to the installation of solar infrastructure on a variety of building types, including houses, businesses, industrial and agricultural to which specific conditions are attached. My Department, in the context of the...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (29 Sep 2022)

Charlie McConalogue: ...grant aid through the Targeted Agricultural Modernisation Scheme (TAMS II) to assist our farmers in maximising their contribution to the production of renewable energy through the installation of Solar PV technology along with battery storage on Irish farms. Solar energy for on-farm use is grant aided under the Animal Welfare Nutrient Storage and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Act 2000 (Exempted Development) (No. 3) Regulations 2022, Planning and Development (Solar Safeguarding Zone) Regulations 2022: Discussion (29 Sep 2022)

Steven Matthews: My experience is that solar panels have a life expectancy of 20 to 25 years along with the inverters. The difficulty that might arise is with battery systems, but batteries are not required in all installations. It depends on the make-up of the household and when power is used. People need to consider that carefully. A payback period of seven years for something with a 25-year life...

Financial Resolutions 2022 - Financial Resolution No. 6 – General (Resumed) (28 Sep 2022) See 2 other results from this debate

Denis Naughten: ...taking of measures at European Union level instead of applying the renewable electricity support scheme clawback - something that I was involved in developing that as Minister - into the renewable energy wind and solar farms that are making excessive profits under the existing old renewable energy feed-in tariff. By using the new clawback model that has been developed, approved and...

Financial Resolutions 2022 - Budget Statement 2023 (27 Sep 2022) See 3 other results from this debate

Matt Shanahan: ...to divide Europe by turning off gas supplies is causing energy prices to rise. These increases are feeding into our productive economy. The resultant inflation is affecting consumer spend and buying power. It is significantly impacting our SME sector and it will impact our employment and standard of living. Rising European interest rates, designed to curb inflation, are...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (27 Sep 2022)

Sharon Keogan: ...Government their taxes, the Government hands some of this back through energy bills and the money goes into the pocket of the energy companies. Surely this is inflating a burst tyre. Why not put a €600 solar panel on every home instead? Let people make some of their own electricity and lessen reliance on these companies now charging unprecedented energy prices. Better yet, take...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Renewable Energy Generation (27 Sep 2022)

Eamon Ryan: ...%. The Renewable Electricity Support Scheme (RESS) is one of the major Government policies to help deliver on this. RESS 1 is expected to deliver 1,022MW of new renewable generation, 569MW of solar and 453MW of wind, an approximate 15% increase in Ireland’s current renewable energy generation capacity by the end of 2023.To date, 11 projects equalling 353MW of new renewable...

Energy Security: Motion [Private Members] (21 Sep 2022) See 3 other results from this debate

Mattie McGrath: ...oil investors and dismantled all of them, yet he has no diversification plans. There are many people out there crying. Businesses, households and everybody else are trying to diversify and put in solar panels and many generators, turbines and everything else. Many have, and the Government refused to pay these people supplying electricity back to the grid. It was only this July that...

National Retrofit Plan: Motion [Private Members] (20 Sep 2022)

Martin Kenny: ...three-year waiting list, with more than 9,000 people waiting, tells us there is a problem here. It needs to be adjusted and the Minister needs to ensure that adjustment is delivered. Finally, solar panels and solar PV panels are one of the projects that I know very many people around the country consider doing and would love to be able to do but, again, they find that affordability is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Engagement with the Commission for Regulation of Utilities (20 Sep 2022)

...opportunity to discuss some of the work under way in relation to the strategic priorities within our new strategic plan. I will start by outlining the current priority work we are undertaking to empower and protect consumers. In light of exceptionally high and volatile wholesale EU gas prices, retail electricity and gas prices are increasing dramatically, thereby putting pressure on...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Policy (20 Sep 2022)

Eamon Ryan: ...currently progressing through delivery milestones under the first renewable electricity support scheme auction (RESS 1). RESS 1 is expected to deliver 1,022MW of new renewable generation, 569MW of solar and 453MW of wind, an approximate 15% increase in Ireland’s current renewable energy generation capacity by the end of 2023. To date, 11 projects equalling 353MW...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Production (20 Sep 2022)

Eamon Ryan: ...supply of natural gas to the EU from diverse sources across the globe to avoid supply shocks, including those that could result from disruptions. It is essential that we cut our dependence on imported fossil fuels, and power comes from our own indigenous renewable resources including wind and solar. Climate Action Plan 2021 sets an ambitious target to increase the share of electricity...

Security of Electricity Supply: Motion [Private Members] (15 Sep 2022) See 7 other results from this debate

Eamon Ryan: ...down in price in the same way that fixed offshore wind has done. We will move, in the second phase, into southern waters as well as western waters and then further west. The advantage of this power supply is that we can convert it through electrolysis, a working mechanism, into hydrogen and ammonia which gives us the storage and transport and other fuels that can power our country. To...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Energy Prices (15 Sep 2022)

Leo Varadkar: ...across Government on efforts to facilitate businesses reduce their energy costs through the use of renewable energy. With electricity prices high, the cost saving available from using rooftop solar power or other renewables on-site has never been greater. The Micro-generation Support Scheme (MSS) will provide capital grants for non-domestic applicants for solar PV installations up to...

Measures to Assist with Household Bills: Motion [Private Members] (14 Sep 2022) See 3 other results from this debate

Brian Stanley: ...incomes up to €70,000, beyond which nothing would be received. These emergency measures would help households throughout the winter and are badly needed. With regard to energy security, a number of years ago, I raised in this Chamber the need for the power stations at Shannonbridge and Lough Ree to be kept open. The power station in Edenderry has been co-fired and is now moving...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Sectoral Emissions Ceilings: Engagement with the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications (13 Sep 2022)

Eamon Ryan: ...set for 40 or 50 years of increased car dependency and a more sprawled, disbursed planning model in our country. That is not easily reversed. It will be a four-way switch: to biofuels and electric power; to walking, cycling and public transport; the reduction in the overall demand for traffic, which is probably the most important but least discussed; and a sharing of transport. Moving...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Energy Supply and Security: Discussion (30 Aug 2022) See 2 other results from this debate

...on the back of economic growth and a thriving economy are not mutually exclusive in terms of having a green electricity system. The Government's own policy to drive 70% to 80% renewables on the power system by 2030 is what we have all signed up to. We have signed up to a green, transformed, world-leading electricity system which ultimately is going to power electric vehicles, heat homes...