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The Irish Solar Energy Association (ISEA), the representative body for the solar industry in Ireland, was founded in 2013 to work to influence Government agencies on solar energy using their existing knowledge and experience from developers.
This week, I sat down with Conall Bolger, CEO of the ISEA, to see what role Irish farmers can play in solar.
JK: Why solar? I see you are backing a new industry report?
CB: Despite our well-earned reputation for rain, Ireland has a tremendous capability to generate solar energy.
We estimate that if the right policies were enacted, we could produce enough power from solar PV to power 1.9m homes by 2030. There is an enormous pipeline of projects – easily 2,000MW of solar PV project capacity could be accommodated on the Irish system by 2025.