Martin Kenny (Sligo-Leitrim, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I thank the Chair and thank the witnesses for their opening statements and the engagement so far. I want to focus on little part of all of this.

I note Ms Donnelly, in her opening statement, said that "Battery storage using renewable electricity is key to decarbonising data centres and maximising the available renewables in the system." I assume that is available renewables for everybody, including data centres. I would like to understand how much of that battery capacity have we got to do that and how much more do we need to have. A certain amount of the electricity that is produced disappears. How much of that can be stored? If we had the capacity to store that, where would we be at in regard to sustainability?