Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 24 September 2025

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy

Engagement with the Commission for Regulation of Utilities

2:00 am

Dr. Tanya Harrington:

We published a decision on this in 2021. That decision stands. There were a number of aspects of it that we needed to consider, in particular generation and climate and renewable issues that we wanted to reflect on in the intervening period. Ireland has been successful in attracting this type of investment. We have grown from 5% of energy demand to data centres to 30% contracted for 2030. However, there is an intervening period where there are physical constraints on the network, especially throughout the Dublin region. Our minded-to decision highlighted that. We have asked the system operators to prepare detailed analyses of capacity. If I bring the Deputy back to the earlier part of the conversation, that is the workshop that we will be having with the three system operators on 17 October.

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