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 can bind a business case for that and there is an economic justification for that approach, that is exactly what we will evaluate. If the demand for this product took off and Mayo Renewable Limited found a way to use less of its own throughput and sold more of it elsewhere, that would clearly improve the economics of the business. Applying the legislation, as guided by Europe, we would calculate the useful heat. In that scenario, the useful heat figure would increase. The HE CHP's figure could also increase. If the overall efficiency rate went above 80% for this type of plant, it would automatically get 100%. If it was slightly below 80%, it would go somewhere slightly lower than 53%. All of this is done through the application of the formulae in the legislation.

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