Results 1-20 of 58 for solar power speaker:Brian Stanley

Public Accounts Committee: Children’s Health Ireland and National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Discussion (19 Oct 2023)

Brian Stanley: ...houses and semi-detached houses. They are all very modest houses, and some of them are small houses. Even though that was nearly two years ago, I was struck by the number of them that had solar panels. I understand that it needs to fit in with the helipad and a number of other things. We were standing on this massive roof space, a lot of it tilted towards the south, which could capture...

Environmental Protection Agency (Emergency Electricity Generation) (Amendment) Bill 2023: Second Stage (7 Mar 2023)

Brian Stanley: ...left in the cold. Energy companies are choosing not to pass on the 40% reduction in wholesale electricity prices. What justification is there for allowing these companies to charge skyrocketing prices for wind- and solar-generated power? That is the question the Green Party needs to answer. The wind and sun do not cost any more now than they did two years ago. Fianna Fáil, the...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Jan 2023)

Brian Stanley: One thing is not clear from reading the correspondence. I noted a piece when I was going through the letter that comes under the subheading, "Electricity and power generation (particularly in relation to back up capacity and energy security)". The letter states: "I am advised that the figure of €1bn for backup capacity within the larger €33-€37bn electricity sector...

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications
2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General - Chapter 9: Implementation of the National Broadband Plan (13 Oct 2022)

Brian Stanley: .... Mr. Griffin would have heard me talk about some of these issues five or six years ago. I was trying to figure out in my head, and I am still trying to figure out, where the dispatchable power comes from. He will recall me telling the Minister, Deputy Eamon Ryan, that if the wind does not blow and the sun does not shine, that knocks out the solar panels and wind turbines, which I...

Measures to Assist with Household Bills: Motion [Private Members] (14 Sep 2022)

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...

Public Accounts Committee: Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland: Financial Statements 2020 (24 Mar 2022)

Brian Stanley: With regard to the SEAI's role with renewables, the talk is about wind. We have a great resource and we are lucky. It is to be hoped that we can develop that, particularly the powerful offshore element of it and floating wind turbines. However, wind is not a dispatchable power. We do not always have it. At the times of the greatest energy needs on this island, and there were a number of...

Climate Action Plan 2021: Statements (23 Nov 2021)

Brian Stanley: ...with that work. I have put forward suggestions on doing so, as have other Deputies. Sinn Féin wants to invest in State bodies like Bord na Móna and the ESB to develop biogas, biomass, hydrogen, wind and solar power. Bord na Móna has to be central to this. That is important because it has the land mass and resources. It can be the energy solution company and it must...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Sep 2021)

Brian Stanley: ...will not be blackouts. However, we know that on those frosty, dark nights, the wind does not blow, so there are no wind turbines moving. We also know that there is no sun on those nights, so the solar panels will not work. Therefore, we are heavily dependent on the gas-generating stations and we know there are difficulties with that. We also know that there are plans to import some...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Sep 2021)

Brian Stanley: ...at the committee as well as me and she will recall me raising this issue three years ago. If we close down the peat-burning stations and other sources, we will need other sources in place. Wind and solar do not provide dispatchable power on the cold nights when the wind is not blowing and the sun is not shining. That is the reality. The Deputy heard me saying this in this room before.

Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage (Resumed) (29 Apr 2021)

Brian Stanley: .... In the area of renewable energy, we have a site at Shannonbridge in west Offaly that is in a pivotal position in terms of the national grid. It needs to be a connection point for renewable energy, solar power, wind energy, biomass and biogas. The Mount Lucas facility should be scaled up to a large national training centre that can deliver the apprenticeships that are needed to...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Mar 2021)

Brian Stanley: ...regarding the report from the Secretary General, Mr. Mark Griffin. I must say it is very comprehensive. A study is being carried out regarding the potential use of the Lough Ree and Shannonbridge power plants. The just transition commissioner, Mr. Kieran Mulvey, requested a study be undertaken, according to the correspondence from the Secretary General. It sets out that a feasibility...

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (22 Jan 2021)

Brian Stanley: ...wish the company and everybody associated with it well. On the ESB and Bord na Móna plants and the Department's role in the issue, the Lough Ree and Shannonbridge plants have stopped generating power. These plants are on the national grid and are strategically located. They are a plug-in point. There is deep concern that they either will not be used for anything or will be...

Climate Action and Low Carbon Development: Statements (Resumed) (10 Jun 2020)

Brian Stanley: ...and Bord na Móna workers? I refer to measures that would allow farmers in the midlands, for example, to diversify and transition to growing renewable energy crops such as biomass? The three midlands power stations could be used for biogas energy production. Those plants could create an income for farmers, energy for the country and, importantly, jobs for the region. Surplus heat...

Covid-19 (Communications, Climate Action and Environment): Statements (27 May 2020)

Brian Stanley: ...also needs to see part of the public service obligation levy, PSO, repurposed for renewable projects and perhaps the Minister will respond to that if he can. We need to take advantage of the strategic location of the three midlands power plants in Lough Ree, west Offaly and Edenderry, and use them as energy hubs. Bord na Móna should continue to operate the Edenderry plant and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Supporting a Just Transition: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Dec 2019)

Brian Stanley: ...to Mr. Mulvey is that the three of these have a significant role. I am a former employee of Bord na Móna. All my family worked in Bord na Móna for a number of generations. The midlands have been the power generation hub of the country for a long time. They can be again with renewable energy. They needs biomass. We are bringing it from South America and Mr. Tom Donnellan...

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Supplementary) (10 Dec 2019)

Brian Stanley: ...about the sheep electronic identification but the Minister might outline the current situation regarding the control of horses, because there is some confusion, particularly at local authority level, about microchipping, what powers they have, and so on. I do not expect the Minister to go into it because these are Estimates, but he might give us an overview. Horse welfare is a huge...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Renewable Energy - Wind, Solar and Biogas: Discussion (4 Dec 2019)

Brian Stanley: I see this as resolving the problem. Mr. Michael McCarthy has heard me say at a previous meeting of the committee in this room that we can use it to solve a problem, to create jobs and to generate power. That is the good news. On solar, I have introduced a Bill that deals with planning permission for rooftop solar. The current planning permission at 12 sq. m is very restrictive in that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Supporting a Just Transition: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Nov 2019)

Brian Stanley: On the retrofit programme, has the ESB looked at the option of a green bond or a pay-and-save scheme? The ESB representatives have answered some questions on the future of the power stations, but in terms of the use of the sites, the grid connection location and water extraction licences that the company has, there are a lot of things and a lot of departure, so to speak there for something...

Agrifood and Rural Development: Motion (24 Sep 2019)

Brian Stanley: ...it needs to be built on. Much is dependent on the setting of a fair base price. We need to underpin transparency with legislation. The Bill put forward by Sinn Féin provides for transparency between the processor and the primary producer. Currently, a small group of powerful cartel-like processors are taking advantage of a system in which farmers are denied basic information....

Report of Joint Committee on Climate Action: Motion (9 May 2019)

Brian Stanley: ...on Climate Action we did achieve consensus on the vast majority of substantive issues behind climate change. However, we diverged when it came to agreeing to certain solutions to the problem, particularly in the areas of afforestation, power, waste, a just transition and carbon tax. My party also wants to be more ambitious in producing power from renewables. For that reason, we felt it...