Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 21 November 2019

Public Accounts Committee

2018 Annual Report of the Accounts of the Public Services
Chapter 9 - Greenhouse Gas-Related Financial Transactions: Discussion (Resumed)

9:00 am

Mr. Brian Carroll:

I might ask Mr. Confrey to contribute on ocean energy. I was involved in that area around the time of Wavebob. We have a great resource on the west coast but, as yet, there is no settled technology for harnessing wave energy. I visited a wave test site in the north of Scotland while I was working in the area. Six or seven radically different looking devices were being tested. Sometimes one tests a device and brings it to a certain point and it will not work. Nobody has made a breakthrough in that regard. It is an area in which we are still working.

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