Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 13 June 2023

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action

Decarbonisation of the Heat Sector: Discussion

Mr. Ronan Coffey:

If Deputy O'Sullivan does not mind, I want to go back to a previous question around the controllability of this heat. We can point to an example in our Galway plant where we built a 40,000 sq. ft controlled environment for medical device manufacturing. This was our first heat pump-fed, clean room environment in Ireland. It has been operational for two years now and working very efficiently and effectively. It is very much a proven, low-risk technology. I know there is debate about controllability when it is retrofitted to domestic houses. However, that is a totally separate discussion. In industry, in the qualified environmental control realm of medical device manufacturing, we find that this technology has proven itself.

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