Irish taxpayers could very well have to pay hundreds of millions of euros every year if we cannot guarantee that 40% of our electricity will be generated through renewable sources by 2020. Minister Rabbitte told the IWEA that there needs to be a sharp rise in the construction of the wind energy infrastructure.
Ireland is currently 630 MegaWatts behind where the National Energy Plan states it should be at this point in time. The target simply will not be achieved if we do not ramp up our annual rise in output from 180MW to 250 MW.
The minister did state that we can meet the 2020 deadline but failure to meet this deadline will result in non compliance fines amounting in the region of EUR100million to EUR150million per year for each percentage shortfall with a further EUR250 million in emissions permit purchases.
These frightening statistics could very well undermine the opportunity to export wind energy to the UK.
Despite the small protest staged outside the Four Seasons Hotel where the conference was held an IWEA poll found that 80% of Irish people voted in favour of the construction of a wind energy infrastructure.
This support emphasizes that Irish people do see wind energy as an alternative that will stabilize their energy bills and also will help Irish employment improve.
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