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Oct 7, 2024 | 
lexology.com | Máire O’Neill |Fergus Devine |Brian Lenihan
The Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024 (Bill) aims to provide more certainty around the timeframe for decisions on applications for licences from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for the energy, food, pharma, chemicals, waste and other industrial sectors. It will complement the statutory timelines being introduced under the Planning and Development Bill 2023.
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Sep 10, 2024 | 
lexology.com | Fergus Devine |Máire O’Neill |Ciarán Herlihy |Colm Booth |David O'Shea
RESS 4 is the fourth auction held under the Irish Government’s Renewable Electricity Support Scheme. See our recap of RESS here. Provisional ResultsEirGrid has now published the provisional results of the RESS 4 auction. Statistics to note arising from the provisional results, include:1. A total of 56 projects applied to participate in the RESS 4 qualification process. Of these applications, 43 projects qualified, three projects did not qualify and ten projects formally withdrew from the process. 2.
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Jul 24, 2024 | 
lexology.com | Fergus Devine |Máire O’Neill |Ciarán Herlihy |Matthew Smith |Colm Booth
EirGrid, as Ireland’s Transmission System Operator, is responsible for ensuring the balance of supply and demand on the Irish electricity system. EirGrid does this by a process of directing energy generators to increase or reduce supply and/or directing demand response facilities to increase or reduce their demand (referred to as “dispatch” and “re-dispatch”) in accordance with Irish Single Electricity Market (SEM) rules.
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Jul 16, 2024 | 
lexology.com | Fergus Devine |Máire O’Neill |Colm Booth |Alex Needham |David O'Shea |James Curtis
The Irish Government has approved a set of guiding principles for the development of its “Private Wires” policy (the Private Wires Policy). This follows the public consultation on Private Wires which closed late last year. A New ApproachThe development of the Private Wires Policy has been a goal of each of the Climate Action Plan 2021, the Climate Action Plan 2023 and the Climate Action Plan 2024.
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Jul 4, 2024 | 
lexology.com | Fergus Devine |Máire O’Neill |Colm Booth
The Accelerating Renewable Electricity (ARE) Taskforce has published its Implementation Plan to support Ireland’s achievement of its onshore renewable electricity targets by 2030. The ARE Taskforce is comprised of Government departments (including DECC and DETE) and State bodies (including EirGrid and CRU) that are key to delivering Ireland’s energy transition.
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May 7, 2024 | 
lexology.com | Fergus Devine |Máire O’Neill |Colm Booth |James Curtis |David O'Shea
Last week marked a significant milestone in Ireland’s journey towards a sustainable future with the publication of a series of key documents by the Department of the Environment, Climate and Communications (DECC).
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Feb 27, 2024 | 
lexology.com | Fergus Devine |Máire O’Neill |Colm Booth |James Curtis
The public consultation period for the Department of the Environment, Climate and Communication (DECC)’s offshore renewable energy (ORE) Future Framework Policy Statement has now closed. The ORE Future Framework Policy Statement 2024The public consultation aimed to gather stakeholder feedback on aspects of the ORE Future Framework Policy Statement.
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Dec 12, 2023 | 
lexology.com | Fergus Devine |Máire O’Neill |Ciarán Herlihy
The CRU has published its decision paper on the grid access pathway for Phase 1 offshore wind projects that were unsuccessful in the ORESS 1 capacity auction concluded in June 2023. ORESS 1The first offshore renewable electricity support scheme auction (ORESS 1) received submissions from six projects. Of these six submissions, four received a Notice of Award comprising 3,074 MW of awarded capacity.
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Nov 22, 2023 | 
lexology.com | Fergus Devine |Máire O’Neill |Ciarán Herlihy |Colm Booth |Matthew Smith
The Government’s cross-departmental Offshore Wind Delivery Taskforce has published its “indicative roadmap” towards the State’s next offshore wind auction (ORESS 2.1). This builds on the momentum from Ireland’s successful first offshore renewable electricity subsidy scheme auction round (ORESS 1) in May. Roughly 3GW of offshore wind generation capacity was awarded under ORESS 1 in what was a breakthrough moment for the country’s offshore wind market.
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Sep 27, 2023 | 
lexology.com | Fergus Devine |Máire O’Neill |Ciarán Herlihy |Colm Booth |Matthew Smith
RESS 3 is the third auction held under the Irish Government’s Renewable Electricity Support Scheme. See our recap of RESS here. Provisional ResultsEirGrid has now published the provisional results of the RESS 3 auction. Statistics to note arising from the provisional results, include:1. A total of 36 projects applied to participate in the RESS 3 qualification process. Of these applications, 33 projects qualified, one project did not qualify and two projects formally withdrew from the process. 2.
