Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 15 November 2023

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action

Future Licences and Contracts to Connect Data Centres to the Gas Network: Discussion

Ms Marie Donnelly:

I suspect that would be done very quickly if all goes with us. Money talks. In the end of the day, it could be implemented on this issue. We will have the same problem that everybody else has of whether we can access the raw materials and the supply chains to supply the batteries and the materials in the batteries, but that will be the same as everywhere else. If we put enough effort behind it, we will be able to do it.

There is a secondary element but it is a more long-term issue. That is that, in general, we need to look at alternative storage mechanisms for electricity. There are various. The ones that are in solid-state batteries, for example, are being investigated. There are some salts that are being investigated. These are at the research stage. They might be able to deliver long-term storage for us. That is certainly an area of interest but for the moment, many of those are still in research-----

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