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Rising Energy Costs: Motion [Private Members] (22 Mar 2022)

Paul Murphy: .... It is a company that's profits doubled last year to more than €1 billion. There is no increase in the cost of producing gas and oil and certainly not in the cost of producing energy from wind or solar power. Instead, what is happening is supply and demand. In other words, massive profiteering by the fossil fuel industry internationally taking advantage of the invasion of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Energy - Ambition and Challenge: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Mar 2022)

...and issues which need to be resolved so that it can make its key contribution to Ireland meeting its 2030 and 2050 targets. Decarbonising electricity requires significant additional wind and solar generation and the phasing out of fossil fuel generation, with natural gas used largely as a transitional fuel until decarbonised biogas, green hydrogen or other measures come on stream....

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Policy (8 Mar 2022)

Eamon Ryan: ...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...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Energy - Ambition and Challenges: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Mar 2022) See 1 other result from this debate

...conditions that a variety of activities related to the renewable energy sector must meet in order to be deemed sustainable, from electricity generation, storage, manufacture, transmission and distribution to solar, wind, geothermal, renewable non-fossil gaseous and liquid fuel and bioenergy. It is primarily aimed at large companies and the financial services sector to guide and mobilise...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Policy (3 Mar 2022)

Eamon Ryan: ...total available wind energy. In order to meet Ireland's target of up to 80% renewable electricity by 2030, very high penetration of variable renewable electricity on the grid will be required. Currently EirGrid operate the power system with up to 70% of renewable power at a given time, including onshore wind and solar. By 2030, this will need to rise to 95% in real time and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Challenges in the Pig, Poultry and Horticulture Sectors: Irish Farmers Association (2 Mar 2022)

...area we could look at immediately. Carbon tax could be suspended or at a minimum, we could ensure that no VAT is applied to it. To go back to electricity, every poultry house in Ireland should have solar panels on the roof. It is a no-brainer. There are huge sheds, the facility and usage are there and it is 24-7 so whatever power that is produced during the day will be used inside the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: National Action Plan on the Development of the Islands: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Mar 2022)

.... UCC is also involved, as is the clean energy for EU islands initiative. We need this mix working on the islands. It is not something one organisation can do on its own. The dry dock is looking at a combined heat and power plant. It has put 15 MW of solar on the roof and it will do more of this. We are also looking at wind and technology whereby heat can be taken from the sea...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Energy - Ambition and Challenges: Discussion (1 Mar 2022) See 2 other results from this debate

...to look at are Germany and the Netherlands. Other countries have regional industries that affect their hydrogen strategies. Some countries are heavily industrialised and some may develop hydrogen power from solar power. Fortunately or unfortunately, Ireland will have its own hydrogen strategy and it will be quite different from many other countries' strategies. We will focus on...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Sports Funding (24 Feb 2022)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: ...is putting in floodlights or if it currently has floodlights, we should consider how can we move that to a lower-energy light-emitting diode, LED, system. We should look at whether clubs can put solar panels on their roofs in order that the heating of water happens through the power of sunlight rather than affecting their bottom line. That would allow them to spend their money on so many...

National Retrofitting Scheme: Statements (17 Feb 2022) See 1 other result from this debate

Barry Cowen: ...the abundance of potential wind energy that is available off our shores to create what could be a European supergrid. Off our south and east coasts, we have the potential to generate 15 GW of energy; 1 GW provides enough energy to power 750,000 homes. We have up to 100 GW of potential energy off our west coast. Floating turbines would make up 75% of that total. There is potential here...

Seanad: Planning and Development (Solar Panels for Public Buildings, Schools, Homes and Other Premises) (Amendment) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (16 Feb 2022)

Róisín Garvey: ...to see the Bill reach Committee Stage. It is definitely now time to dot the i's and cross the t's and bring it home. The Bill will specifically allow people to be exempt from planning permission for solar panel installation, which will extend to public buildings and schools. It removes the restriction that limits the area of solar panels allowed on a roof to 50%. This means that a...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Renewable Energy Generation (16 Feb 2022) See 1 other result from this answer

Jennifer Whitmore: ...for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the efforts he has taken to look into the various issues surrounding connectivity via direct lines, that is, private wires, in the context of solar power; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8742/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Development of Indigenous Irish Enterprise: Discussion (16 Feb 2022)

.... On the Monday before last, I visited Tricel, a company of ours in Killarney. Tricel, along with the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland, was launching an intervention around oil usage and solar power, among other things. Tricel has done an extensive intervention on its plant. We have seen that across many other companies in our base and I think we will continue to see that....

Seanad: Electricity Costs (Domestic Electricity Accounts) Emergency Measures Bill 2022: Second Stage (15 Feb 2022)

Malcolm Byrne: ...has the necessary supply as a result. There are a couple of questions that need to be asked. One is around the planning process. It takes far too long from the inception of some wind energy and solar energy projects to get them up and running. I am thinking in particular of offshore projects. I worry that some of the measures being announced are welcome in the short term but we need...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 16 - Valuation Office (Revised)
Vote 23 - Property Registration Authority (Revised)
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Revised) (10 Feb 2022)

Steven Matthews: ...to develop their plans so that, when funding is announced, they are shovel-ready and ready to go. I hope that is in place. On energy efficiency and retrofitting, the planning exemption for solar panels is critical. We are coming into the sunny season now. There are megawatts of potential power up there in the sun. We could have panels on every school building, community building,...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Planning Issues (8 Feb 2022)

Peter Burke: ...any guidelines issued by the Department. Under section 30 of the Planning and Development Act 2000, the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage is specifically precluded from exercising power or control with regard to any particular case with which a planning authority or An Bord Pleanála is, or may be, concerned. Consequently, it would not be appropriate for me to...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Feb 2022)

Erin McGreehan: ..., have a real robust list of targeted supports for people who are vulnerable. I also ask for a debate on how we will expand our energy market and make the transition from fossil fuels to wind and solar power. There is a major debate to be had on how we make sure that we have a proper energy supply in the interim before we are carbon neutral. We all want our energy to come from...

Electricity Costs (Domestic Electricity Accounts) Emergency Measures Bill 2022: Second Stage (3 Feb 2022) See 2 other results from this debate

Matt Shanahan: ...months when fuel consumption is high. This situation also gives rise to a wider debate about the nature of Ireland’s developing national energy and climate policy. We are talking about wind and solar power generation, but where is it? The Maritime Area Regulatory Authority is two years away from being set up yet. We need that agency to be able to control the development of...