Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 19 December 2018
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action
Examination of the Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly (Resumed)
12:00 pm
Ms Aoife MacEvilly:
I think that is perhaps a long-term vision rather than something we could do overnight. Moneypoint has been down but we have had really good wind, good interconnection, neither of the interconnectors were down, and peat has been part of the fuel mix. If all of those were to go overnight I do not think any of us would be as comfortable about security of supply. We should, however, start planning in that direction. It is worth saying that the PSO ends shortly. By 2019 and early 2020 that PSO will be gone and 100% peat burning should be no more in this country.
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