Dáil Éireann Debate, Wednesday - 6 October 2010
293 Deputy Paul Gogarty asked the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the number of generators and their size currently operating under the ESB support initiative for micro-generators; the number of applications that are being processed; the reasons for assisting 4,000 generators only; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35176/10]
Amharc ar fhreagraThere are currently 302 generators operating in the ESB Microgeneration scheme with a total connected capacity of 1709.17kW.
The types of technology in the scheme are as follows:
Wind Turbine installations = 261 in total
PV installations = 39 in total
Hydro Turbines installations = 2 in total
Wind Turbine installations comprise approximately 93.5% of total microgeneration connected capacity.
PV installations comprise approximately 6% of total microgeneration connected capacity.
Hydro Turbine installations comprise approximately 0.5% of total microgeneration connected capacity.
A total of some 307,048kWh were exported by ESB microgeneration customers between 30th September 2009 and 14th September 2010.
The breakdown by technology type is:
A total of 267,760kWh were exported by Wind Turbine installations.
A total of 38,340kWh were exported by PV installations.
A total of 948kWh were exported by Hydro Turbine installations.
The purpose of the 4000 generator limit was to place an initial boundary on ESB Networks commitment, with a view to getting a microgeneration tariff scheme up and running.
ESB Customer Supply currently has 15 microgeneration customer applications in progress. ESB Networks deal with a large number of enquiries on the microgeneration scheme, many of these are general enquiries. It is only at the point where import / export meters are installed and the customer contacts ESB Customer Supply that ESB Customer Supply become involved in the customer's application.
