Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 16 July 2025

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy

Climate Change Targets 2026-2030: Electricity Sector

2:00 am

Mr. Cathal Marley:

I will pass this over to Ms O'Shea, but we should not mix up grid capacity and generation capacity. They are different things. Generation capacity is tight, but we are able to manage it. We have things in place like the temporary emergency generation and the interconnectors. Moneypoint is there as well as a backup. That is generation capacity. It is tight but we should be able to manage through it and we have auctions taking place to build more conventional plant. Grid capacity is different. We have a number of projects. Ms O'Shea might take that.

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