Enda Kenny (Mayo, Fine Gael)
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Question 242: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources the level of support that exists for domestic wind turbines and geothermal pumps as an incentive to provide alternative energy methods; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21790/06]

Noel Dempsey (Meath, Fianna Fail)
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The level of funding provided in the Greener Homes grant aid package for geothermal heat technologies is a follows:

The focus of the domestic grants scheme is on renewable energy for heating purposes with the specific objective of developing a sustainable market for renewable heat technologies. Wind is supported on a community and commercial scale through other mechanisms.

Sustainable Energy Ireland (SEI) has published a study on the metering options for Small Scale Renewable electricity and Combined Heat & Power Generation (CHP) in Ireland. The study identified a number of areas which require further analysis including the ability of such processes to secure adequate payment for their exports; connection standards and processes for smaller generators, and the implications of the single electricity market for small-scale electricity generation. SEI is commissioning work to address these issues in 2006 and this will inform further policy decisions in relation to domestic wind turbines.