Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 29 March 2022

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action

Energy Challenges: Discussion

Mr. Jim Gannon:

Another thing that will become increasingly important over the coming years with regard to the cost-effective deployment of renewables is to make sure that where we have renewables deployed they are not behind a grid constraint. One example is where there is a 100 MW wind farm, but the system to which it connects can only get 80 MW.

There are a number of ways of addressing that but the core way is by improving the national transmission grid and then supporting the grid to get to those wind farms in order to make sure we are not unnecessarily turning down or not accepting the power we could be accepting from them. There are other aspects such as co-located storage of batteries, whereby some form of compensation could be provided for that. It is a matter of making sure we have fewer grid constraints as we update the electricity grid.

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