Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 16 April 2019

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment

Microgeneration Support Scheme Bill 2017: Discussion (Resumed)

Mr. Peter O'Shea:

The generation analysis statement produced last year outlines a potential 57% increase in demand in the Republic of Ireland over the next ten years. That is a greater rate of increase than we have ever seen before. We need to be prudent about it. We have developed options around open-cycle gas turbines as one of a number of options within the capacity mechanisms. We are keeping various options open because of the significant level of uncertainty about where demand goes and what the requirements are. Flexibility is certainly a key part of it because-----

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