Public Service Obligation Levy 2025/26 Proposed Decision Consultation
The Public Service Obligation (PSO) is a charge distributed across all final electricity customers in Ireland and is used to fund Irish Government schemes to support the construction and operation of sources of renewable electricity.
The consultation can be found here.
As part of the transition to a lower carbon future, it is necessary to support and encourage the development of renewable energy projects and that the cost of this support, as decided by Government policy, should be shared across electricity customers as fairly and equitably as possible.
The PSO currently supports the Government Renewable Energy Feed-In Tariff (REFIT), the Renewable Electricity Support Scheme (RESS) and newly established Small-Scale Renewable Electricity Support Scheme (SRESS) all of which support renewable electricity generation projects.
A final decision on the PSO Levy will be issued by 1 August 2025 in compliance with statutory requirements. The PSO Levy is likely to change between this proposed PSO decision and the final decision. This is due to the potential change in a number of inputs, in particular the predicted wholesale market price (Benchmark Price) which can change in line with changing commodity prices.
Responses should be submitted via the consultation platform by the close of business on Wednesday, 9th July 2025.