Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 21 April 2015
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications
North-South Interconnector: EirGrid
11:30 am
Mr. Fintan Slye:
All year round, for approximately 30% of the time, one would see power moving from Ireland to those other jurisdictions. We would have very low incremental cross-generation, potentially at zero, if it is coming from renewable resources. At that level we can compete against nuclear power stations. As the Deputy rightly points out, in the UK they have moved away from onshore to offshore wind energy. Offshore wind energy is significantly more expensive, so onshore wind can compete with that quite effectively. Therefore, some 30% of the time, I think one would see-----