Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 22 October 2024
114. Deputy Darren O'Rourke asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications to specify the agreed or provisionally agreed auction contracts under RESS 1, RESS 2, RESS 3 and RESS 4 respectively; the number of successful projects; the total capacity of successful projects; and the percentage share of total successful projects that are that are wholly or partly owned by ESB and its subsidiaries, in tabular form. [42437/24]
Amharc ar fhreagraUnder the Climate Action Plan 2023, Government has set an ambitious target of having an 80% share of electricity generation capacity coming from renewable sources by 2030.
In order to build on this success and increase wind and solar generation on the grid, my Department is delivering a regular programme of auctions under the Renewable Electricity Support Scheme (RESS).
The RESS auctions provide pathways for renewable developers to plan and develop their projects, with supported technologies including, but not limited to, onshore wind, solar, and hybrids (co-located wind, solar, and/or storage).
Details of projects successful in each of the RESS auctions are publicly available on the EirGrid RESS website, and RESS projects which have energised and are eligible for PSO support are listed on the annual PSO Statutory Instrument, the most recent of which can be found on the statute book website here: www.irishstatutebook.ie/eli/2024/si/377/made/en/pdf
Given the Department's role in overseeing the RESS auctions and potential regular changes in the corporate structure of projects, it is not appropriate or feasible to provide a breakdown of ownership of RESS projects by an individual company. Information submitted at the time of the auction was at a point in time, and ownership (either in part or in its entirety) could have changed in the period since the auction. The ownership, partial ownership and potential ownership of individual projects is submitted to and taken into account by the CRU in the role of determining competition within individual RESS auctions.
The table sets out the aggregate information requested for the four RESS auctions to date:
|
- |
successful |
unsuccessful |
successful MW |
unsuccessful MW |
successful GWh |
unsuccessful GWh |
|
RESS 1 |
82 |
26 |
1,276 |
283.4 |
2,236.7 |
317.24 |
|
RESS 2 |
80 |
50 |
1,948 |
999.8 |
2,747.9 |
1,024.5 |
|
RESS 3 |
23 |
8 |
646 |
247.7 |
934.48 |
289.09 |
|
RESS 4 |
27 |
16 |
1,334 |
513 |
2,071 |
513 |
