Farmers 'can't be penalised' for electricity use

A spokesperson for the CRU said that the peak time of use tariff “is not applied to all customers and depends on what distribution or transmission group that a customer falls into”.

"Farmers can't be penalised for using their electricity at certain times of the day, food still needs to be produced."

Farmers are concerned they are going to be “penalised for having the milking parlour going at certain times of the day”.

The Irish Farmers’ Association has said that farmers cannot be penalised by any peak electricity charges proposed by the Commission for Regulation of Utilities (CRU).