Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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288. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will express, as a percentage of daily electricity requirements, the volume of electricity now being generated from oil, gas, wind, biomass or other alternatives, including those likely to become available; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11049/15]

Alex White (Dublin South, Labour)
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The information sought by the Deputy is available in the public domain.

The EirGrid Smart Grid Dashboard (publicly available on EirGrid’s smart grid dashboard website at ) sets out the System Generation fuel mix and net imports across the power system in the all-island wholesale electricity market (SEM). It shows the average fuel mix for the last 24 hours, the last week and the last month, on an all-island, Ireland and Northern Ireland basis.

Under Regulation 25 of S.I. No. 60 of 2005, the Commission for Energy Regulation (CER) is required to ensure that all electricity suppliers provide reliable information on bills and promotional materials sent to customers regarding the contribution of each energy source to the overall fuel mix of the supplier concerned. To this end, the CER publishes an annual Information Paper on Disclosure of Fuel Mix and CO2 Emissions which sets out the fuel mixes and CO2 emissions factors for suppliers licensed in Ireland and operating in the Single Electricity Market (SEM), as calculated in accordance with the SEM-11-095 Decision Paper on Fuel Mix Disclosure in the Single Electricity Market: Calculation Methodology. The most recent Fuel Mix Disclosure and CO2 Emissions publication is for 2013 and is available at

Among the relevant SEAI publications, in the public domain, containing relevant data on electricity generation fuel mixes in Ireland, are (a) Renewable Energy in Ireland 2013 and (b) Energy in Ireland 1990-2013 Report, both of which are publicly available on the SEAI website at.