Agri-Business
ESB Networks has confirmed that it will begin deploying the first cohort of three-phase smart meters in mid-2025.
Pinergy has announced that it is to increase the amount paid to customers, including farmers, selling excess electricity back to the grid.
Farmers who signed up for the Micro-generation Support Scheme are still "in the dark" in relation to payment or credit, according to a TD.
Environment
Minister of State Pippa Hackett said that famers should be encouraged to install solar panels for use on farm and for the national grid.
The government will begin to reduce supports for solar PV micro-generation in 2024 and will start to phase them out completely in 2028.
Rural Life
Farms and families are "losing out" as the micro-generation support scheme is still not operational, according to independent TD, Carol Nolan.
Denying farmers the ability to export surplus solar generated energy to the grid and receive payment is impractical says MREF chair Pat Smith
The Irish Solar Energy Association (ISEA) has welcomed environment minister, Eamon Ryan’s...
A proposal on the supports to be offered to farms, homeowners, schools and businesses under the...
Small-scale generation of renewable energy is set to take "centre-stage" this summer with the new Microgeneration Support Scheme.
