Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 28 February 2017

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment

Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals and Impact of Brexit on the Irish Energy Market: Discussion

5:00 pm

Photo of Eamon RyanEamon Ryan (Dublin Bay South, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

Or interconnection. I would go and look and see what other systems are doing. I cannot believe that within the Paris climate agreement that we are not looking at 100% decarbonisation. Whatever problems we have in agriculture and transport, if we are not doing it in power generation, I cannot see how we will meet the Paris Agreement targets. We will miss out. I am surprised that the ESB would not be looking to be at the forefront of where other progressive utility is going, which is around that variability management supply and demand and all sorts of flywheel technology and different ways of providing that synchronous system. I am staggered that the ESB has so little ambition.

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