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:
Currently, with the next stage of work from the study, we have identified in candidate areas where are the anchors. That is a key piece for public and private investment in the area. All part of the conversation currently is who will be the anchor tenants and is there good heat demands in the area, not only residential and smaller businesses but solid source anchor tenants. That is what one sees in most of the successful networks. They started off with key public buildings and maybe leisure centres, swimming pools, hotels and hospitals, which are the big high-heat demand buildings in a network that give a guarantee that one will have a certain amount of baseline demand before connecting other customers. That is a big part of the business model for it.
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