Solar Ireland has called for the Irish Government to establish a national clearing house to accelerate renewable energy project delivery.
The organisation said avoidable bottlenecks in planning and grid processes are slowing deployment across Ireland.
It added that the proposed clearing house would act as a central coordination mechanism across government, planning authorities, industry and grid operators to improve delivery.
The call follows a weekend in which Ireland’s solar farm output exceeded 1GW and then reached a 1.2GW peak milestone.
Solar Ireland said the clearing house would identify and resolve delays in real time, ensure consistency in decision-making and timelines, support viable projects and improve transparency and accountability.
Ronan Power, chief executive of Solar Ireland, said: “Ireland has shown that it can deliver renewable energy at scale. What we need now is a system that can keep pace with that ambition. Too many projects are being slowed by process rather than principle.”
“A clearing house would provide a structured way to identify issues early, resolve them quickly, and ensure that viable projects are not delayed unnecessarily.”
Solar Ireland also called for a clearer long-term strategic framework with defined pathways beyond 2030 and climate action targets for 2035 and 2040.
Power said: “The next step is to create the conditions for that delivery to accelerate. A clearing house model, combined with clear long-term targets, would provide the structure and certainty needed to move to the next phase.”