Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 4 October 2022

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action

Energy Prices: Discussion

Mr. Nicholas Tarrant:

The second place where it comes up is if during the course of the winter there was a system alert or a system emergency or where there were challenges around supply meeting demand. This is something that is managed through EirGrid, with which we work very closely, on a dynamic basis. If there was a situation where there was a tight system and a need on a planned basis to reduce demand, various steps are gone through including mandating extra-large users to reduce their demand at that time. There has been ongoing engagement with the extra-large users by both ESB Networks, as the distribution system operator because we have data centres connected to our network, and the same with EirGrid, to reduce demand in those situations.

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