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. Nicholas Tarrant:

This is about enhancing and building additional capacity compared to where we are today. They are multi-year projects. Based on the current process, all of these projects would go through the SID process with An Coimisiún Pleanála. It takes time for these big infrastructural projects to go through planning, procurement and delivery on site. We are talking four, five or six years, depending on the timeline. We have to look at every component of the critical path of these projects to see what can be done to accelerate their delivery. This is crucial infrastructure and we are seeing big demands on the electricity infrastructure today. That is part of the discussions ongoing, for example, with the accelerating infrastructure task force and other forums where this critical infrastructure is being discussed so we can progress it at pace. That is what is needed.

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