Michael Healy-Rae (Kerry South, Independent)
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Question 114: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his plans to improve the structures to encourage farmers and others to utilise small wind generation units or anaerobic digesters at farms in order to minimise problems with slurry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38200/11]

Pat Rabbitte (Dublin South West, Labour)
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My Department has recently received State Aid clearance in respect of the REFIT (Renewable Energy Feed in Tariff) for electricity from biomass technologies including Anaerobic Digestion. Government approval is currently being sought to open the scheme and once this has been obtained, the scheme will be formally launched and open for applications.

ESB has been operating a micro-generation feed-in-tariff scheme for the domestic sector for the past number of years, which has 387 customers signed up to date. The available tariff is 19c per Kilowatt hour, made up of a 10 cent per kilowatt hour tariff offered by ESB Networks and a 9 cent per Kilowatt hour tariff offered by ESB Electric Ireland (formerly Customer Supply). No other electricity supply company has introduced a micro-generation programme.