Priority: Environment and Accessibility Theme: Renewable Energy Sub-theme: Renewable Energy Development and Deployment Intermediate Body: Sustainable Energy Ireland 1. Introduction The main focus of the RE RD&D programme is on stimulating the deployment of renewable energies. It adopts an aggressive technology-led approach to renewable resolving technology and market barriers such as energy storage and demand management in the electricity sector. It involves the deployment of renewable and alternative energy technologies in residential, commercial, public, and community buildings through a combination of grant and regulatory interventions. The Ocean Energy Development Unit (OEDU) has been established to implement the Government’s policy decision to accelerate the development of Ocean Energy (Wave and Tidal) in Ireland and it was established to advance the deployment of ocean energy technologies in Ireland by increasing the capacity for research and development both with academic institutions and commercial entities developing devices in Ireland. This has, as objectives: - Targets for the connection of 75Mw of ocean energy by 2012 and 500Mw by 2020 (Programme for Government and White Paper) - The creation, in Ireland, of a centre of excellence in OE technology and the stimulation of a worldclass industry cluster. 2. Class Output
Result
Performance Indicators Indicator Baseline Acceleration of the development and deployment in the Irish marketplace of competitive renewable energy products, processes and systems. Enabling technical and other barriers to market uptake and/or modal switching to be overcome. The number of RE RD&D projects delivered under the following areas
Shared cost
Final Target Delivery of 100 R&D projects to accelerate the deployment of renewable energy
6.8% (2005) 8.6 % (2006) of electricity consumption from renewable energy
Wind equates to 15% of national electricity demand in 2010 and 40% demand by 2020.
30 RE RD&D Shared Cost
Outturn to 31st December 2009 SEAI delivered 14 research reports/ studies to accelerate the deployment of renewable energy
Total final consumption from renewable energy was 10%. There was 1,441MW of wind generation connected to the grid at the end of 2009 and it provided 14% of national electricity demand. SEAI delivered 14 reports across a variety of technologies including • Seismic Acquisition on the Southern Margin of the Dublin Basin • The development and mobilisation of the Wood Fuel Quality Assurance scheme • Development of a 500 kW Fluidised Bed Boiler through to market release • Innovative Demonstration of an Electric Vehicle, EV Accelerator and Electric Vehicles in a Captive Fleet 14 RE RD&D Shared Cost projects (cum. from 2007)
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