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The Irish Minister for Energy, Eamon Ryan, will announces plans today to encourage members of the public to generate their own electricity using wind turbines. Home owners and landowners who install wind turbines will be given incentives to generate power for their own homes. They will also have the option to sell excess energy to the national grid, becoming microgenerators.
The Commission for Energy Regulation last week announced that the ESB is to buy electricity from microgenerators at a tariff of nine cents per kilowatt. Mr Ryan is to announce the incentives at the Renewable Energy Systems open day in Straffan, Co Kildare. He will also reveal details of a grant-assisted pilot study covering part of the cost of setting up a microgenerator. A guide outlining how people can get their turbines connected to the national grid will also be released. Ireland is considered to have some of the best energy-producing winds in Europe and a high percentage of the population live in one-off houses on sites suitable for wind-energy generation.
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