The Northern Ireland Renewables Obligation, known as the NIRO, is DETI’s main means of increasing renewable electricity generation in Northern Ireland.
The NIRO works in tandem with Renewables Obligations covering the rest of the UK. It obliges electricity suppliers to produce a certain number of certificates - known as ROCs - as a proportion of the amount of electricity which they supply...
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Precision Solar
Solar PV salesmen are often compared to their PVc Window counterparts.
There is a fair bit of big talk, exaggerated benefits and ridiculing of others within the sales pitch. If you wish to get the facts and avoid the bull, then talk to us. We don’t guess at the returns. We use the most up-to-date panel information, independent research, invertor testing and local weather data to tell you what ...
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Under Pressure
Three years ago at a meeting at the Dargan Road premises, NIE highlighted that the local grid would be under pressure to support a large number of single wind generators.
It was suggested that there may only be a possibility of connecting 200 medium sized wind turbines. Scant attention was given to this forewarning. At the time, Anaerobic Digesters and Solar PV arrays were not on the renewables ...
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Changes to Microgeneration grid connections
If you are thinking about installing a small Wind or PV on your premises, there are changes on the cards as regards how much generation capacity you can obtain without a grid application to NIE, i.e. plug in straight away to the grid under a G83 connection.
The current G83 limits are as follows:
Single Phase - 6.5 kW
Three Phase - 20 kW
The changes due to take effect on 1st March 2014 ...
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