How can I sell electricity generated from renewables?
There are a number of routes for selling electricity generated from renewables: • Projects successful in AER competition are awarded an ESB power purchase agreements. Government supported Alternative Energy Requirement (AER) competitions have run since 1994. Following a call for tenders, competitors are assessed on the bid price per unit of electricity. Successful competitors are offered an ESB power purchase agreement of up to fifteen years. • Projects supported under EU RTD programme are awarded power purchase agreements with ESB. Projects successful under the EU Fifth Framework programme (Energie) are guaranteed access to the electricity network. The price offered in the power purchase agreement will be the average of the prices bid in the relevant category of the preceding AER competition. This continues the support offered to successful Thermie projects under the previous framework programme.
