Thomas Pringle (Donegal, Independent) | Oireachtas source

By the same token, one can not invest in an offshore wind farm because the same infrastructure will be used that is already in place in the State. Electricity is generated at the Moneypoint plant, by wind farms and peat-burning stations in the midlands. By the same token, one could make the argument that electricity supplies generated by an offshore wind development on the Arklow Bank or in the Atlantic could not be brought ashore because one would be using existing transmission networks, but I do not think that argument is valid. The idea is to transition which means that we will need existing transmission information networks to carry renewable energy supplies.