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- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Energy Conservation (15 Dec 2022)
Darren O'Rourke: I ask the Minister if he will increase the grant support for lower income households to aid the installation of solar photovoltaic, PV, and the target number of homes for solar PV installation in the years 2023 to 2025, inclusive, to help meet the recently announced increased target of 5 GW of installed solar power capacity by 2025.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Energy Conservation (15 Dec 2022)
Darren O'Rourke: 78. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will increase the grant support for lower income households to aid the installation of solar PV; the target number of homes for solar PV installation in the years 2023 to 2025, inclusive, to help meet the recently announced increased target of 5 GW of installed solar power capacity by 2025; and if he will make a...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Energy Conservation (15 Dec 2022)
Eamon Ryan: ...heating for which we can turn to other alternatives. To respond to Deputy O'Rourke, we will have to do a variety of things differently. For years we have not allowed people to sell back power to the grid and now we are. For years we had planning restrictions for solar power. This has also changed. For 20 years I have heard arguments here and in meetings as to why we could not have...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Energy Conservation (15 Dec 2022)
Darren O'Rourke: I thank the Minister. We can all agree there is great potential and appetite for solar power, particularly for residences, businesses and farm buildings. There is a barrier at residential level and we can see it in the design of the scheme. From the large number of applications we can see there is demand. I believe the demand goes beyond the scheme, and it needs to do so to reach 5 GW....
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Energy Conservation (15 Dec 2022)
Eamon Ryan: Solar PV panels are installed under a number of circumstances. For domestic installations, solar PV is installed on new homes, as one of the measures to achieve compliance with Part L of the building regulations. They are also installed on existing buildings through grant supports offered by Government, through the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland, SEAI. The microgeneration support...