Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 13 June 2023
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government
Infrastructure Provision and Residential Developments: Discussion
Steven Matthews (Wicklow, Green Party) | Oireachtas source
I will come back to the infrastructure in a moment. We have seen energy efficiencies introduced in houses over the last five, ten, 15 years. There are A-rated appliances, LED lighting and so on. Added to that we are going have electric vehicle chargers and heat pumps. When it comes to how the ESB rates what needs to go to a house now, are we looking at a 20% increase in capacity to each house now? How is that balancing out or how does the ESB approximate that?
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