NIE Energy Meeting – Gwyneth & Ralph – Roc!

Today, Silverford Renewables met up with Gwyneth and Ralp from NIE Energy, at their Belfast office’s to discuss the future of  renewable energy in Northern Ireland. 

After speaking to Gwyneth & Ralph, we can see that NIE Energy are certainly taking the lead when  it comes to encouraging renewable generation, in terms of providing grants to domestic wind and pv/solar projects. Both parties debated on various topics, including – ROC’s, Export Energy Tariffs, Grant Assistance and the future of renewables in Northern Ireland. 

Certainly Gwyneth & Ralph, should be congratulated on their refreshingly honest approach to renewable energy generation. We at Silverford,agree that more leaders in the Northern Ireland renewable industry, could learn a thing or two, from the enthusiastic team at NIE Energy, to say the least…  Ultimately, NIE Energy are caught between a ROC  (and a market value roc at that..) and a hard place, in terms of dealing with – leglisation, creating awareness of quality renewable products, provinding self - funded grant assistance and keeping most people happy, quite a juggling act – by anyones standards!  

Overall, it was a thoroughly frank and realistic conversation, which provided most of the answers to most of our questions. Overall, we’d score NIE Energy a  B+, with room for improvement…

Due to many reasons! – both parties have agreed, that due to the nature of the conversation, we cannot divulge any specific information relating to the meeting.