Damien English (Meath West, Fine Gael)
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Question 536: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the plans he will put in place to ensure that excess domestic power generation can be placed back into the national grid; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27462/07]

Eamon Ryan (Dublin South, Green Party)
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The White Paper on Energy Policy and the Programme for Government commit to developing the undoubted potential for distributed generation including micro-scale contributions from domestic and other small scale distributed units. The development of a verifiable metering system for micro-scale producers will be facilitated by the development of a smart-metering solution, the pilot scheme for which was launched earlier this week. My Department is working with Sustainable Energy Ireland (SEI), the Commission for Energy Regulation (CER), ESB Networks and the Electro-Technical Council of Ireland, to deliver the other arrangements that will be needed to allow domestic power generation be sold back to the national grid.