Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 18 November 2015

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications

ESB: Chairperson Designate

9:30 am

Ms Ellvena Graham:

Given that, as Deputy Fitzmaurice mentioned, on many days the wind does not blow, there are times when the investment would not be of any benefit to us. In order to go to that level we would need to find some way to store the capacity that is created, because very often the wind blows at night when there is an over-supply. We would have to find some way to store that and use it when we need it at peak times. It is a complex question and many things would have to be looked at before anybody would invest €800 million in a network.

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