Department consults experts on renewable gas funding just one week before deadline

REPowerEU aims at ensuring continuity of energy supply in the wake of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

The Department of the Environment waited three weeks into a four-week submission period before consulting its own competent authority regarding a €35bn EU renewable energy fund which Ireland has failed to apply for.

Ireland is one of just two European nations which failed to apply for a key European Commission (EC) funding initiative known as REPowerEU, aimed at ensuring continuity of energy supply in the wake of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.