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- Security of Electricity Supply: Motion [Private Members] (15 Sep 2022)
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...
- Security of Electricity Supply: Motion [Private Members] (15 Sep 2022)
Matt Shanahan: ...of that is going towards the public sector, not the private sector growers. That is just one significant disconnect. In the motion, we have called for the reopening of the Lanesborough and Shannonbridge power stations, to be fuelled by biomass, but that can only be achieved if we seriously look at the legislation we have for thinning forestry. It is not happening simply because of the...
- Security of Electricity Supply: Motion [Private Members] (15 Sep 2022)
Pat Buckley: ...Deputies here a while ago speaking about microgeneration. In the previous term, we in Sinn Féin proposed microgeneration and it was dismissed as fantasy. We have businesses that have invested heavily in solar panels and are lucky enough to be producing enough power to run their own businesses, but yet they are still prohibited from selling the excess power to one of the providers....
- Security of Electricity Supply: Motion [Private Members] (15 Sep 2022)
Patricia Ryan: ...down the costs. The price of gas is dictating the price of all electricity, which is pushing bills to an extortionate level, even for renewable electricity. While we can produce electricity from wind and solar power at a relatively low price, the current system means that that energy is sold at the same rate as gas-generated electricity. As recently as June of this year, the Minister,...
- Security of Electricity Supply: Motion [Private Members] (15 Sep 2022)
Michael Lowry: ...storage facility, with a storage capacity of 230 million cubic meters, with the last of the storage gas withdrawn from the reservoir in March 2017; — the new Renewable Electricity Support Scheme (RESS) has an inbuilt refund to the State where renewable wind turbines or solar farms make excessive profits, however, such a clawback was not incorporated into the Renewable Energy...
- Security of Electricity Supply: Motion [Private Members] (15 Sep 2022)
Noel Grealish: ...consumption, so that they will be able to turn on their lights and heat their homes. In the context of doing everything we can to create additional electricity output, a related issue which has been raised with me concerns grant assistance for the provision of solar panels in homes. There is a grant available for the installation of solar panels on domestic dwellings, offering up to...
- Security of Electricity Supply: Motion [Private Members] (15 Sep 2022)
Verona Murphy: ...a successful retail business. That correspondence displays clearly how unprepared and disorganised we are when it comes to moving towards renewables. He states in his email: We have looked to try and install solar panels to reduce costs but the system in place is making this very difficult because of the following. We would need to install a 150 kW system for the site. Currently, you...
- Security of Electricity Supply: Motion [Private Members] (15 Sep 2022)
Jennifer Whitmore: ...It is difficult to say that to individual homeowner while explaining it is for climate and emissions reasons, and for our energy security, when at the same time large corporations are allowed to use what power they want and build as many data centres as they want. In fact, this was encouraged and facilitated by the Government, that data centres were a key industry for us and there would...