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:

We are planning for the overall system at the transmission level. We look at all needs that are coming up. That is what we put into our price review. That is why the investment is multiples of what it was in the past five years. We have invested really heavily in the past five years. It is not just happening in the next five years, but there are multiples being invested over the next five years in particular. We look at the overall demand. We look at all the scenarios that potentially could occur and that is what we are planning for our grid, and we are building the grid out to meet those demands in line with Government policy around large energy users and housing and everything that is required, including electrification, heat pumps and EVs. We feed all that in, and that is what we plan our system around.

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