Tom Hayes (Tipperary South, Fine Gael)
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To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if the present payment system with Electric Ireland in respect of surplus electricity supplied to the National Grid will be renewed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16727/13]

Pat Rabbitte (Dublin South West, Labour)
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Prices in the retail market have now been fully deregulated, effective since 4 April 2011, and there is no longer scope for specifying a regulated tariff/payment for microgeneration in the retail market as part of the Commission for Energy Regulation’s (CER) tariff setting. Individual supply companies, however, remain free to make payment offerings in respect of surplus electricity supplied to the National Grid on a commercial basis.

The only supplier offering a microgeneration feed-in-tariff at present is Electric Ireland at 9c/kwh. Electric Ireland has been offering a 9c/kwh feed in tariff, on a commercial basis, to domestic microgenerators since February 2009. No other electricity supply company has to date chosen to enter the market and to offer a microgeneration feed-in-tariff on a commercial basis, although the CER invited them to do so.