*Senator Roisin Garvey and Green Party leader, Eamon Ryan. Photograph: John Mangan
A NORTH CLARE Senator has predicted further energy cuts into the New Year.
Last week, SSE Airtricity announced a further 12.8 per cent price decrease for its 300,000 customers in the Republic of Ireland. This is the second drop from the energy company in three months.
Prices for some customers will have dropped almost 20 percent since the summer. This latest cut will lower the annual bill of a typical electricity customer by €219.29 and of a typical gas customer by €157.07 and will take effect from February 1st.
Senator Roisin Garvey (GP) stated, “It is great to see progress has been made in support of small businesses in the reduction of their bills. We saw Minister Eamon Ryan meeting with the big companies earlier in the summer and subsequent to that, we had a reduction in September and now we see a further commitment to reduction in February. I can envision the other companies all following suit and hopefully some of them might even bring their reductions even sooner due to this SSE Airtricity announcement”.
Inagh native Roisin flagged, the Government has taken a range of measures to reduce energy costs and the cost of living for consumers, such as the energy credits of €450 to all households. The first payment of €150 issues this month.
The reduction comes as Wind Energy Ireland reported that 37% of Ireland’s electricity in November came from wind energy alone.
