Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 28 February 2017

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment

Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals and Impact of Brexit on the Irish Energy Market: Discussion

5:00 pm

Mr. Fintan Slye:

The Deputy is mixing and matching. I think 75% is instant change. There is that. Interconnection helps. Demand-side helps. That is the use of the consumer, bringing them in, which our colleagues talked about. Smart meters help in that respect. Also, storage helps. That could be pumped storage in Turlough Hill as we have discussed, but more likely will going to be some of the newer technologies, where the price curve for things like batteries is falling dramatically.