Results 141-160 of 204 for solar power speaker:Eamon Ryan

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Renewable Energy Feed-in Tariff Scheme (22 Sep 2020)

Eamon Ryan: ...to meet the eligibility criteria and terms of the scheme.  82 of these were successful in the auction representing a 75% success rate. These results equate to 479MW of onshore wind and 796MW of solar, giving a total of approximately 1,275 additional Mega Watts on the system. The RESS prices achieved in the first competition, with an average bid price of €74.08, represents a...

Climate Action: Statements (17 Sep 2020)

Eamon Ryan: ..., as committed to in the programme for Government and in accordance with the proposed approach of the previous Minister, Deputy Bruton, on which I want to follow through. The legislation will strengthen the powers of the Climate Change Advisory Council, as recommended in the report of the joint Oireachtas committee. The council's first task will be to establish a national climate action...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Renewable Energy Generation (16 Sep 2020)

Eamon Ryan: In July 2018  the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland (SEA) launched a pilot scheme to help domestic customers who install rooftop solar photovoltaic (PV) equipment on their homes.  The grant is available to homes built and occupied before 2011 and details of eligibility criteria and how to apply are set out on the SEAI website. As of end August 2020 there were 3,691...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Renewable Energy Generation (8 Sep 2020)

Eamon Ryan: ..., including the first RESS auction, the results of which are expected to be considered by Government shortly. This will deliver new renewable energy projects to the grid at scale, for the first time ever targeting solar farms to power Irish homes. Onshore and offshore wind as well as sustainable biomass technologies are also eligible to participate in the RESS auctions, with the first...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Grant Payments (28 Jul 2020)

Eamon Ryan: The solar PV Scheme, which commenced in July 2018, targets domestic customers, solar PV installations (rooftop solar panels), self-consumption (grant to assist with installation costs with no tariff for export) and battery energy storage systems (BESS). The Scheme was reviewed in December 2019 and the costs of installation were assessed. Some grant changes were made to the scheme...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Bord na Móna (15 Jul 2020)

Eamon Ryan: ...for Bord na Móna to develop apprenticeships, employ younger people who will have a 30 or 40-year career in rolling out the scale of change we need to make. Similarly, in the development of renewable power, I believe the company has real potential in wind, solar and other power supply systems to develop an economic base for the midlands that is the best example of public enterprise,...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Renewable Energy Generation (15 Jul 2020)

Eamon Ryan: ...electricity by 2030 and how we will develop the necessary skills base, supply chains, legislation and infrastructure to enable it; finalising and publishing the wind energy guidelines; developing a solar energy strategy for rooftop and ground-based photovoltaics to ensure that a greater share of our electricity needs is met through solar power; continuing EirGrid’s programme,...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Electricity Generation (15 Jul 2020)

Eamon Ryan: ...by 2030 and how we will develop the necessary skills base, supply chains, legislation, and infrastructure to enable it - Finalising and publishing the Wind Energy Guidelines; - Developing a Solar Energy Strategy for rooftop and ground, based photovoltaics, to ensure that a greater share of our electricity needs is met through solar power; - Continuing Eirgrid’s programme...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Electricity Generation (15 Jul 2020)

Eamon Ryan: ...an integral part of installing new renewable energy and a route for community participation in the projects; and - Prioritising the development of micro-generation, letting people sell excess power back to the grid by June 2021. Locally generated or community energy is one of the corner-stone policies of the Programme for Government. The Renewable Electricity Support Scheme...

Post-European Council Meetings: Statements (24 Jun 2020)

Eamon Ryan: ...revolution we will have to manage whatever Brexit may bring. I will take the example of the green energy revolution. We will move towards a 100% renewable energy system. To get that right, we have to balance the power supply over a wide regional area. I believe we will move to a north-west European regional electricity market, which really will ship power over long distances and match...

Climate Action and Low Carbon Development: Statements (Resumed) (10 Jun 2020)

Eamon Ryan: ...is stable. I was lucky to meet one of the great pioneers of renewable energy, the German politician, Hermann Scheer. He was a social democrat, not a Green, and one of the great leaders of the solar revolution whom I had the pleasure of meeting. I always remember the closing paragraphs of his book, The Solar Economy, with its one main message, namely, farmers are critical. He argued...

Climate Action and Low Carbon Development: Statements (18 Dec 2019)

Eamon Ryan: ...it and we may be able to go further and in the learning by doing we will surprise ourselves and gain economic advantage. Again, nothing has been introduced yet, particularly in terms of offshore wind or in solar power, which shows us how we will actually do it. Similarly in terms of the switch to electric vehicles there is broad agreement, although I have a different view in terms of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Supporting a Just Transition: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Nov 2019)

Eamon Ryan: ...Communications, Climate Action and Environment in that regard? Will it be involved in the consultation process? Rewetting is the rehabilitation of cutaway bogs formerly used for peat extraction for power plants. Will Mr. Donnellan indicate, in the four areas he set out, what percentage of Bord na Móna's overall land bank that is? What degree of carbon savings does he expect from...

Development of a Liquefied Natural Gas Facility in Ireland: Statements (3 Oct 2019)

Eamon Ryan: ...gas crisis when people across eastern Europe were freezing in their apartments after the gas supply had been cut off. Fracked gas was only in its infancy at the time and we did not have renewable power supplies at the cost competitive rates that are available now. Since then, everything has changed and the Department and Minister must now change their position. The first change was that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Citizen and Community Measures: Discussion (2 Oct 2019)

Eamon Ryan: My understanding is there are approximately 200 or 300 sustainable energy communities, which SEAI has supported in working together. Why have none of them come together and put solar panels on a couple of hundred roofs? There may be examples that Mr. Melvin can outline. The examples of the Aran Islands and County Tipperary are often cited but are there other examples where something is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Citizen and Community Measures: Discussion (2 Oct 2019)

Eamon Ryan: I remember six or seven years ago seeing Brixton as a local community that developed community solar power by collectively installing solar panels on a range of roofs. In Ranelagh, which is in my constituency, what would prevent me from approaching 200 or 300 households and saying we should all take the initiative together? It would be much cheaper to buy 2,000 panels than a small number...

Report of Joint Committee on Climate Action: Motion (9 May 2019)

Eamon Ryan: ...deliver a just transition. Our own Just Transition (Worker and Community Environmental Rights) Bill 2018 would set up a specialist mediation service to work with Bord na Móna, workers at Moneypoint power station, the agricultural industry and local communities in places like Leitrim and Roscommon, where issues like new afforestation are causing real anger. That mediation service and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Microgeneration Support Scheme Bill 2017: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Apr 2019)

Eamon Ryan: ...one time, or running all four e-pumps at the one time. Perhaps battery storage could be used in all those houses. If that is where it is going - and it seems that it is - the existence of rooftop solar panels on those houses would be of major benefit to the distribution network. It should not be seen as the power market being taken away from the distribution network or as neighbours...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Microgeneration Support Scheme Bill 2017: Discussion (5 Mar 2019)

Eamon Ryan: ...meetings. The SEAI renewables report yesterday was timely and interesting in showing that the State is so far away from its targets. One figure that stood out among many is that the level of solar PD in our country is almost one fifteenth of that in Northern Ireland. There have been controversies over various energy schemes in the North. Its refit scheme might have been expensive but...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Nov 2018)

Eamon Ryan: ...although there will still be difficulties with the timelines. I was reminded that one of Mr. Donnellan's distant predecessors appeared in one of these rooms and said the maximum amount of renewable power we would ever get in the system was 800 MW, after which it would be extremely dangerous. As Mr. Donnellan said in his presentation, however, almost 5,000 MW is interconnected. This...