Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 13 November 2018

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action

Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (Resumed)

3:00 pm

Mr. Robin McCormick:

One of the scenarios we have included in Tomorrow's Energy Scenarios 2017 is a customer action scenario where we try to capture much of what the Chair has described about micro-generation and solar panels on individual houses, etc. We have the detail on the breakdown of that and we will look at what the impact of all those changes will be on the ground. The Tomorrow's Energy Scenarios 2017 is designed to capture the direction of travel that has been described by micro-generation, where individuals start to take more action than they have done up until now. We are all conscious of our smartphones and the apps we have that allow us to control our central heating, etc. If that is developed further and people install batteries, solar panels and heat pumps, all those actions are reflected in the Tomorrow's Energy Scenarios 2017. In the consumer action piece we have 560,000 electric vehicles, for example, and we have 1,500 MW of solar energy, much of which would consist of local, individual solar panels.

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