Microgenerators supply more than 2 MW for ESB

SMALL-SCALE wind turbines, solar installations and hydro turbines supply more than 2 MW from the ESB’s 364 microgeneration customers around the country.

Applications are being processed from a further 18 microgenerators.

ESB Networks agreed in 2009 to provide the necessary import and export metering free of charge to the first 4,000 domestic microgeneration customers, and also provides a support payment of 10 cent per kilowatt hour for those eligible customers for the first 3,000 kW hours exported back to the grid for five years.