Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 24 March 2022
Public Accounts Committee
Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland: Financial Statements 2020
9:30 am
Mr. Declan Meally:
There is a huge opportunity there and that floating technology has now been proven in the North Sea. We have our own Atlantic marine energy test site. We want to see that operational by 2025 to test floating offshore wind in the Atlantic. We could see them coming on stream a lot quicker than we had realised. Again, it will be the consenting because they will be much further out, beyond the horizon but much bigger scale. It is evolving at a much faster pace than people had originally realised. We will probably see floating wind coming in by around 2030.
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