Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 19 November 2013
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht
Heads of Maritime Area and Foreshore (Amendment) Bill 2013: Discussion (Resumed)
12:35 pm
Mr. Brendan Barry:
The energy that would be generated from the west coast of Ireland would feed into the national grid and in that sense it will make its way to Turlough Hill. Turlough Hill is already part of the market and the market mechanisms are already there to allow that to happen. The infrastructure is already in place. The key element as we move forward is whether we need more storage, whether we need local storage, more exports, more interconnectivity and so forth.