Results 1-9 of 9 for solar power speaker:Éamon Ó Cuív

Climate Action Plan 2023: Statements (18 Jan 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: ...co-operatives to ensure the necessary planting. The next point I would like to raise is the feed-in tariffs. Hundreds of people in my constituency, particularly in rural areas, are mad to sell solar power to the grid but they keep getting the push-off from the companies that have promised to give them a feed-in tariff. Then we speak about trying to persuade people to go green. I...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Renewable Energy Generation (8 Nov 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: ...this year, which will make 2022 a record year for new renewable generation. Ireland is third in the world for its share of electricity provided by onshore wind and this year, the first large-scale solar projects are now generating power. In the offshore sector, I am concluding the process of assessing the maritime area consent applications from Ireland's first phase of offshore...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Electricity Generation (26 Apr 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: .... To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the policy decisions he has taken to ensure that domestic electric consumers can sell surplus electricity they generate from solar power or wind energy back into the grid; the number of domestic consumers in Ireland who are selling electricity to the grid; the availability of feed in tariff contracts from electricity...

Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage (Resumed) (5 May 2021)

Éamon Ó Cuív: ...if we are going to have data centres in this country is that we will have to fuel them renewably. It would be a total contradiction in terms if it was not an absolute condition that all new data centres be 100% carbon neutral. There are many ways they could achieve that, including by investing in the renewable sector. We cannot on the one hand allow the consumption of large quantities...

Rural and Community Development: Statements (Resumed) (29 May 2019)

Éamon Ó Cuív: ...people to go to the most far parts of our country. However, the reality is that with the electrification of vehicles, because rural people can generate much more electricity in their homes through solar or wind power, they could become much more carbon neutral and even become carbon contributors in the future, which is not something most urban people will ever be able to say.

Microgeneration Support Scheme Bill 2017: Second Stage [Private Members] (27 Nov 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: ...individuals' costs, but in providing electricity to the grid. I had the idea a number of years ago of seeing to what extent I could become self-sustaining in energy terms in my own house. We put in solar panels which have worked extremely well in providing hot water. One group that has benefitted greatly from that technology is the group of people who keep students in the Gaeltacht in...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Renewable Energy Incentives (31 May 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 182. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the assistance available to small scale developers to access the national grid for the production and sale of solar power; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24141/18]

Rural Areas: Motion (Resumed) (14 Dec 2011)

Éamon Ó Cuív: ...who comes from urban Ireland I believe in justice and if justice is meted out against one section of the community, all of the community will stand by that section. Since this Government came to power there has been a series of announcements that clearly discriminate against and do damage to rural Ireland. These include the reversal of the policy of decentralisation, the refusal to make...

Energy (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2011: Second Stage (Resumed) (9 Nov 2011)

Éamon Ó Cuív: ...has proven to be sustainable in the long-term. This is and always was an ideological decision on the part of Fine Gael and it is sad to see the party of James Connolly, which holds the balance of power in this Dáil, siding with the hawks in Fine Gael rather than with the consensus of all other parties in the Dáil. I do not envy the Minister's position and I suggest he follow his gut...