Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 24 April 2018
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment
Implementation of National Mitigation Plan: Discussion
3:00 pm
Mr. Eamonn Confrey:
I was going to deal with electricity demand. Senator McDowell is right. The EirGrid analysis, through the tomorrow's energy scenario reporting, suggests that if all the data centres in the pipeline, as it were, were to come on-stream, then it would lead to a trebling of demand. That is a significant impact on the electricity system.