The government plans to create capacity for “more solar renewables in the next three years than the total amount of renewables we built in the last 20″, Minister for Climate Eamon has said
THE GOVERNMENT PLANS to create capacity for “more solar renewables in the next three years than the total amount of renewables we built in the last 20″, Minister for Climate Eamon has said.
He said that solar panels should be fitted on every school and “thousands, if not tens of thousands, of farms” by 2025. Despite the grants, some households and businesses interested in installing solar panels say the upfront cost is still prohibitive. Additionally, the government’s microgeneration support scheme, which involves individuals generating renewable power receiving a payment from their energy supplier for excess energy exported to the grid, has taken months longer than promised to be fully up and running.
It is the first to be published since the approval of binding carbon budgets and sectoral emissions ceilings that set clearer limits on the amount of emissions that the country and individual sectors can afford to emit in the coming years, divided into five-year cycles. With nearly two full months gone by since the plan was published, he said it has taken “slightly longer than [he] would have liked” to produce the annex.
Fianna Fáil TD Christopher O’Sullivan asked whether a “message” could be sent to local authorities that they must start installing chargers “at a quicker pace”.
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