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

Dr. Paul McGowan:

I will try to address that question. The test for high efficiency CHP is defined and set out in legislation. It is very much a defined function assigned to the CRU. The process by which we are guided is publicly available. A certificate, once awarded, is time limited. All of this is known to the developer. The processes which the EPA and others go through are separate to that of the CRU. The CRU process is narrow and defined. The purpose is to determine if a plant is a high efficiency CHP and does it achieve full certification of 100% or partial certification and at what percentage that should be set.

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