Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 5 October 2021

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action

Energy Charter Treaty, Energy Security, Liquefied Natural Gas and Data Centres: Discussion (resumed)

Ms Aoife MacEvilly:

I will kick off on the LNG point. The Department is conducting a review of energy security, which is to look holistically at the strategic security of supply for Ireland Inc. and in the years to come. We need to look at a diversity of supply sources for gas because of the increasing importance of gas in our energy mix, because it will be that backup fuel for power generation, and because we are electrifying heating and transport. The Corrib field is in decline, the Kinsale field is closed and we will be reliant on a single source of gas. We just need to look at all of those options. This is why we are suggesting this would be considered, which it is in any case, as an integral part of the review. I will now hand over to Mr. Gannon to speak to the data centres and the interconnectors.

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