Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 30 August 2022

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action

Energy Supply and Security: Discussion

Mr. Mark Foley:

I will speak about offshore. The developers who are in phase 1 in the Irish Sea at present are very sophisticated. They have strong balance sheets and have invested a huge amount of money. I am confident in them, subject to them securing planning consent in a clean manner. We have 5 GW in the original plan, which was prior to the recent climate action plan and the recent carbon sectoral budgets proposal to which the Minister has agreed. I am confident that 3.5 GW alone is very well advanced and that the 5 GW target is achievable. We would expect to see the first offshore wind farm connecting by the window of 2026 or 2027, with a lot to follow.

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