Richard Bruton (Dublin Bay North, Fine Gael)
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190. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will outline the installed capacity of renewable energy under all of the various modes; solar, on shore wind, anaerobic digestion and so on; the categories large scale commercial farms, small business units, household and microgeneration and so on; if he is satisfied that the supports; price for supply to the grid in each case is at an appropriate level to encourage rapid uptake of renewable technologies; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35277/23]

Eamon Ryan (Dublin Bay South, Green Party)
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Ireland has made considerable progress in decarbonising our electricity sector over the last decade, with a major reason for this being the construction of renewable generation sources and their successful integration onto the grid. Ireland is in the top five globally for installed wind power capacity per capita and is a world leader in the integration of variable renewable electricity onto the grid.

Ireland currently has approximately 5.2 GW of renewable generation capacity connected to the grid.

While the majority of this, circa 4.5 GW, is onshore wind, solar generation is a growing source of electricity and is rapidly transforming Ireland's energy system. There is now over 700 MW of solar generation in Ireland and continued delivery of these technologies at scale will be critical to meeting our renewable energy and climate targets.

These increases in renewable electricity generation capacities are facilitated by key Government policies such as the Renewable Electricity Support Scheme (RESS) and the Microgeneration Support Scheme (MSS), with the Small-Scale Renewable Electricity Support Scheme (SRESS) to be launched shortly. These supports provide crucial support to renewable generators of varying sizes and types, from large scale commercial energy producers to community projects and domestic producers.