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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...

Green Hydrogen Strategy Bill 2022: Second Stage [Private Members] (14 Jul 2022) See 1 other result from this debate

Ruairi Ó Murchú: ...renewable framework and must be part of our getting the work around wind energy correct. It is almost trite to say but we have to recognise that wind energy is something that we can become a super power in. I had to listen to some of the Minister's Government colleagues - they may have all been from a certain political party - who spoke of their economic competence and inferred that we...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Renewable Energy Generation (14 Jul 2022)

Alan Dillon: 22. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the climate migration steps that he is taking within agriculture to enable solar power to become a practical option to aid agriculture in its transition; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38351/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure Strategy: Discussion (13 Jul 2022)

Mr. Declan Meally: The whole idea with solar, as with EnergyCloud, is the smart use of energy. Smart meters will allow this. Cars are coming out with batteries that will be able to contribute to the grid. At times when energy is needed, it can be taken from the cars. If there was a storm in Kerry a car could power a house for two or three days. This is the battery capacity. The...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Foreign Affairs Council and UN Security Council: Engagement with Minister for Foreign Affairs (12 Jul 2022)

David Stanton: ...should not be. I am not talking about extra gas; I am talking about replacing any gas coming from Scotland that we might lose. I am fully in support of the green agenda in respect of green hydrogen, solar, wind and so forth. It is hugely important we drive that on as quickly as possible. This has to do with our security as a nation. If we do not have power and if we do not have...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Review and Consolidation of Planning Legislation: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Resumed) (12 Jul 2022) See 1 other result from this debate

Ms Maria Graham: We are looking at regulations around exemptions for elements of solar power, which are smaller scale projects that encompass community buildings. The public consultation phase for that has just finished and findings are being finalised. For large-scale projects, my understanding is that they are not mentioned in the directive and that is the rationale. A renewable...

Seanad: EirGrid, Electricity and Turf (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (5 Jul 2022) See 1 other result from this debate

Eugene Murphy: ...na Móna may borrow, which, as the Minister of State mentioned, is €3 billion and €650 million, respectively. That is very important. We have had the closure of Shannonbridge and Lanesborough power stations in my part of the country. We have accepted the change and know it has to happen. We want the pace of that change to increase in our area. I do not know what the...

EirGrid, Electricity and Turf (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (28 Jun 2022) See 4 other results from this debate

Ossian Smyth: ...was why are we legislating in this emergency way. Our general direction of travel on climate action is towards an electrification of society. We are moving towards our transport being electrically powered, both public and private transport, and moving towards our homes being powered by electricity because heat pumps are powered by electricity. We are moving towards a general...