Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 11 October 2022

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action

Retrofitting Schemes: Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland

Ms Margie McCarthy:

That seems to be the way for a jurisdiction like Ireland where we do not have an established district heating network approach.

That is really where other countries like us are starting off. They are looking at where are the candidate areas and then doing the deep dives into those whereas our Scandinavian and Nordic neighbours have had a longer lead-in time. Some of those might have come from declaring they had waste heat here and agreeing to harness that into a network. Others may have come from having a large district or urban area that they really want to decarbonise and deciding to look at heat pumps etc. It has been more of an organic journey. Ours will have to be more focused on where is our best effort to get this up and running to have it established at a critical mass.

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