Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 18 February 2015

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications

Regulation of Gas Industry: Discussion

9:30 am

Mr. Garrett Blaney:

In terms of the dispatch of the system, there is a priority for renewables which is built into European Union legislation and we have implemented it across the island in terms of the way the system operates. There is a hierarchy within that to try to ensure there is as much stability for the system as possible. In terms of the carbon allowance, a wind renewable generator, be it biomass, wind or whatever, all are deemed to be renewable and therefore they have zero carbon emissions generally, certainly at the point of generation. It gets quite complicated if one tries to look at the life-cycle of carbon and the building of the turbine and how much carbon was needed for that or the amount of carbon-----

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