Farmers anxious to sell excess energy to the national grid from solar panels have received the legislative equivalent of an electric shock.That’s because electricity produced by grant-aided panels may be used only on the farm on which it is generated, both houses of the Oireachtas have been told.Senator Paul Daly told the Upper House that TAMS, the targeted agricultural modernisation schemes, have been modified Welcoming the “exceptional opportunity” afforded to farmers to avail of a grant to install solar panels, he described the initiative was brilliant.But, he said, European Union regulations stipulate that electricity produced by grant-aided solar panels may be used only on the farm on which it is produced.
“This eliminates the opportunity to export excess power to the grid at a time when the EU is calling emergency summit after emergency summit and meeting after…
Grant rules prevent excess solar energy from being sold off-farm
