Trevor Sargent (Dublin North, Green Party)
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Question 323: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources the programmes in place or planned for the use of methane from landfill for energy generation purposes here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31500/05]

Noel Dempsey (Meath, Fianna Fail)
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Biomass landfill gas is one of the technology categories for which support was available under the alternative energy requirement — AER — programme. Nine projects with a combined capacity of 21.5 MW have so far been constructed under this programme. A further two projects with a combined capacity of 2 MW are also proceeding having been successful in the AER VI competition. Biomass landfill gas projects will be eligible to enter in the renewable energy feed in tariff — REFIT — programme which I put out to public consultation recently.