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
Alice-Mary Higgins (Independent)
Is there any ring-fencing for housing within PR6? Is that planned for? Is there planning in this planned approach for new connections of data centres beyond those where there is an existing connection agreement? Within that planning, is there planning for what form of energy users it will be? I ask the witnesses to clarify, but one of the other areas we have been told CRU cannot or will not specify is that new data centres would need to draw their back-up energy from renewable rather than other sources. That has not been clarified. Are there plans for new connections? Are there specifications around new connections beyond those already agreed? Is there ring-fencing for housing in PR6? It is yes-no answers.
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