Malcolm Noonan (Green Party)

I welcome the witnesses and thank them for their presentation. I have several questions, and one follows the question on data centres. I welcome Mr. Gannon's proposal that we would have an opportunity for further engagement given the delay in putting together the piece of work. It would be most welcome if we could have further engagement because members are quite interested in the issue. It would be most useful.

I have a general question for the CRU. Does the CRU have powers to enforce stricter conditions on data centre connections to ensure they align with carbon budgets and to mandate flexible power contracts to limit peak demand impact? Does the CRU have powers to introduce mandatory real-time greenhouse gas emissions reporting for data centres? In setting the connection policies, does the CRU have powers to impose conditions?