Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 13 June 2023

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action

Decarbonisation of the Heat Sector: Discussion

Mr. Tom Marren:

In terms of the point on urgency and what we can achieve, while I do not know much about district heating, although I have been involved in it in the past, it is not achievable within this timeframe. Some of the countries that are deploying this started 50 years ago, so there is a real culture of that. In these countries when they build roads this heating goes in. This is achievable now in our timeframe, and it also costs substantially less than district heating. We could argue that without getting into district heating, there are different grades of district heating. There is third generation and fourth generation. It is constantly improving.

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