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. Noel Cunniffe:

We have been calling for a cost of renewables task force since 2020. It was predicated on a report we did in 2020 called Saving Money, which looked into the cost of developing renewable electricity in Ireland. In different types of projects, we identified savings that could be achieved through changes to our planning system, our grid system, taxation and how county councils set rates. There are a number of various policy levers we can pull. We are investigating a refresh of that report given that it is five years on.

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