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:

Yes, which will be on the assumption that we have renewable electricity, which is a process of the decarbonisation of both the heat and transport sectors. If we roll out what is in the climate action plan, we have enough electricity - because we have enough natural resources - to meet that demand. Availability of the electricity is unlikely to constrain it. Our capacity to roll out heat pumps and electric vehicles up to 2030 has been factored into that unless, in the morning, both accelerate at a rate that has not been foreseen. On the basis of the projected increase of both heat pumps and electric vehicles, that electricity consumption has been factored into the projections from EirGrid and has been covered then by what is projected in the national action plan for the roll-out of renewables.

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