Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 2 April 2019

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment

Energy Plant Certification: Commission for the Regulation of Utilities

Mr. John Melvin:

If Mayo Renewable Limited's plan is to burn the output from this facility - 70% of it - it is appropriate that this is the business plan it presents at this point because we must audit this under law. If, 14 months after it was built, it turned out that rather than the imported low-cost fuel, the facility was burning the very high-quality output, that would be a different use of the machine and would have a different economic justification.

If that is its business plan, then it is right and appropriate for it to advise us of that fact at this time before any further money is spent or business decisions made because, ultimately, if that is what the applicant proposes to do when the plant is up and running, that is how it will then be measured. It is appropriate to understand that now. When we stated-----

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