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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Energy Poverty: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Feb 2024)

...the number of times last year that significant curtailment of wind energy took place. All of this was possible due to the support of EirGrid, ESB Networks and key partners such as Amazon Web Services, Bord Gáis Energy, Prepay Power and SSE Airtricity, which are supporting families in energy poverty through the EnergyCloud initiative. EnergyCloud is fully aligned with the climate...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Energy Poverty: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Feb 2024)

...we are working on and thankfully, as I said already, ESB and Eirgrid are very much involved. We have the capability to be able to get an automated signal which says we are constraining wind power. A signal can be sent through a smart meter or an automated, app-enabled immersion controller. I would point out that 77% of Irish households have immersions. That signal would automatically...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Energy Poverty: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Feb 2024)

...one-off houses. There are thousands and thousands of such houses. We believe there are solutions. We are still awaiting the roll-out of the farm sheds thing, which basically involves putting solar panels on farm sheds. We would solve a great deal of the heating and domestic heating, not to mention power and electricity, of farms if we could get that rolled out. We still have not...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Energy Poverty: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Feb 2024)

..., there was a real slowness in actually giving people the opportunity to sell back into the system. Frankly, however, that now exists. I know many people who are producing excess energy out of solar PV panels, whether it is on farmhouses or barns or on domestic houses, and they are benefiting from them. I know people who, in the middle of summertime, are actually owed money by the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Energy Poverty: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Feb 2024)

..., as the committee is aware. As I understand it, the PSO levy for all renewables is zero. In fact, renewables are the cheapest form of electricity on the grid. What is being lost, therefore, is power that could lower the wholesale price of electricity. The bad news for the committee is that from the graphs I look at with my own business and internationally, I can see that the price of...