Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 15 October 2019
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment
Gas Networks Ireland's Vision 2050: Discussion
Mr. Denis O'Sullivan:
We do. Gas in Ireland comes either from the indigenous source in the Corrib field or via the interconnector, with a small volume still coming from Kinsale. According to the European Environment Agency, the rate of leakage from methane in gas production in Europe is 0.6% from well to wheel. We are very conscious of this and continue to monitor it on our own network. It is a relatively new network in a European context and our leakage figure is approximately 0.1%. In the overall context, it is an extremely small volume of leakage from the sources of gas we have.