Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 15 July 2025
Committee on Budgetary Oversight
Quarterly Economic Commentary: Economic and Social Research Institute
2:00 am
Dr. Muireann Lynch:
In terms of the proportion of variable renewables such as wind, we are way ahead of other countries. In terms of the proportion of renewable electricity across the board, we are not the highest. However, much of that is because the countries with very high renewable electricity, such as Finland and Switzerland, have hydro that we simply do not have. A great deal of their power comes from hydro.
Scooping out hydro, which we cannot do anything about, and looking at variable renewables, including wind and solar energy, we are very much ahead of the curve.
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