The 2007 Government White Paper on Energy Policy, Delivering a Sustainable Energy Future for Ireland \u2014 The Energy Policy Framework 2007-2020 set out a number of strategic goals to support the achievement of the overall policy objectives.<\/p>\n
This included an ocean (wave and tidal) energy target of 500 MW by 2020.\u00a0The Ocean Energy Development Unit\u00a0 in SEAI has conducted a strategic environmental assessment (of offshore wind, wave and tidal development scenarios in a draft offshore renewable energy development plan, and two pilot projects have been grant-aided<\/p>\n
The development of nuclear power installations is prohibited under s.37K of the Planning and Development Act 2000.<\/p>\n\n
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Renewable Energy Plan The 2001 European Renewable Energy from Electricity (RES-E) Directive required a target of 40 per cent renewable generation by 2020. Measures were taken for wind energy projects. Ireland\u2019s Renewable Energy Action Plan\u00a0 2010\u00a0 under the EU Directive required \u00a016 per cent of energy from renewable sources by 2020. The National Strategy required […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[219],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17954"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17954"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17954\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31574,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17954\/revisions\/31574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}