Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 25 February 2015

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications

Energy Prices: Discussion

9:30 am

Mr. Stephen Wheeler:

We have not even considered rates from the point of view of offshore wind; we are looking at the capital cost of installing and building offshore wind farms and it is much more costly than building onshore. The conditions offshore are much more prohibitive and there is more associated risk.

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