Renewable Energy Generation
Dail Éireann — 2023-11-16
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Eamon Ryan (GP), Dublin Bay South

One of the other key developments we need to work on – the CRU has been tasked with this and will shortly conclude its work – is grid connection policy. Of all the various aspects, that policy has been one of the main challenges. I have seen that myself in meeting various community groups. They often have grid connection points, but they take on the full cost of the relevant grid upgrades. Typically, solar is the largest example. The development of solar community projects is a positive one because they can be done economically, but the grid constraint and the cost of the grid upgrade has been one of the main obstacles.
I expect the CRU to come back with a new connections policy that, combined with a regulatory certainty around price and support for that, will help us.

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Sitting date: 2023-11-16