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:
Yes. We are secure. The other thing is that when we bring on new demand and new sources of supply, including renewable supply, that causes issues as well in the system and we have to do it safely. We can set very aggressive targets to do things quicker and bring on more renewables quicker but we will do that only when we are very confident that the system will stay stable. We have increased it from 60% to 75%. If we are going to increase it to 90%, we will do that in a very controlled, managed way. It is too important.
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