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:
It would not be just as a result of that. We risk assess that all the time. As I said, that is why we are very careful on how much renewable we can bring on to the system. We also look at how the demand on the system is acting, so if it is acting in a way we think is going to cause issues, we react pretty quickly to that. That is an ongoing thing. The European Network of Transmission System Operators for Electricity, ENTSO-E, is doing a detailed review of that. It is a European transmission operator group. One of our experts is on that panel. Hopefully, at some point, a detailed report will come out of it. What we have got so far is quite high level coming out of the transmission system operator, TSO. We cannot rely on that because what we need is to see exactly what happened in terms of the renewables, the demand, the generators and how everything happened in that 27 seconds, which is how long it took from when the first trip took place to the total blackout. It was quite quick. We really need to see the detail of what happened there. We have a good bit of information, but we could not say what exactly happened.
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