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:

Possibly. It depends on the direction from the CRU. It issued its direction in 2021, which is restricting any future connections. It is working on a review to get a policy out. We are interacting with it on that, as are others, and we are doing a market intelligence exercise with ESB and some other parties to identify the potential for data centres, what the expectations are, where they would be located and if there would be constraints in those areas. An exercise is being done. The only data centre that has been contracted since 2021 is Arklow.

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