Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 4 October 2022
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action
Energy Prices: Discussion
Cormac Devlin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source
Turning to substations, our guests mentioned earlier that 5 GW of renewable generation is connected to the electricity system and that during this year, between wind and solar, they expect that to increase to 5.4 GW. It may be EirGrid space but, in regard to the substations, is that the ESB's call for a development or proposals to go to EirGrid if it proposes that a new substation be built, or is that EirGrid coming to the ESB or another provider to say it needs a substation in a given location? Whose responsibility is it and how does that work?
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