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Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Electricity Generation (17 Jul 2013)

Thomas Pringle: The provisions in the REFIT 3 tariff to which the Minister referred are welcome. Could the PSO relating to the peat-fired stations be used to enable them to be converted to burn biomass materials? While this is a small element of the overall electricity generation system, the peat-fired process gives rise to high carbon emissions. Such emissions could be significantly reduced by means of a...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Electricity Generation (17 Jul 2013)

Pat Rabbitte: The public service obligation, PSO, levy has been in place since 2001. It is the overall support mechanism for peat generation for certain conventional means of generation constructed for security of supply purposes and for the development of renewable electricity. The levy is designed to compensate electricity suppliers for the additional costs they incur by purchasing electricity...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Electricity Generation (17 Jul 2013)

Thomas Pringle: 3. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his plans to tackle the issue of peat fired power stations in the context of the sectoral emissions reduction plan required of his Department; if it is his intention to refocus the industry toward renewables in a specific timeframe as part of the plans; his further plans to review the public service obligation levy in...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Electricity Generation (17 Jul 2013)

Pat Rabbitte: .... Last year Bord na Móna experienced its worst harvest since it was founded and only realised 37% of its target in this regard. As of Monday last, it had realised 100% - 4 million tonnes of peat - of its harvesting target for the current year. Deputy Pringle is seeking to establish where we go from here. We have raised similar questions with the ESB. As I understand it,...