Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 13 June 2023
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action
Decarbonisation of the Heat Sector: Discussion
Mr. Tom Marren:
I am talking about industry and I will take the dairy sector as an example. I know that on the Saturday and the Sunday, we are turning off turbines on the coast, and they are running 20 MW or 30 MW boilers. We could even bring it in now very quickly. It really is this concept of bringing all of the different strings together and ensuring smarter use of this. Again, we are not trying to do this in millions of different places; it is a relatively small number, somewhere between 2,000 and 10,000, or that is what that industry thinks. Therefore, relatively, it is something that both ESB Networks and EirGrid are quite used to, so they are able to dispatch on and dispatch off, and it will assist us as we bring on more wind.
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