Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 14 November 2018

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action

Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (Resumed)

1:59 pm

Mr. Robert Watt:

-----who might know more about it than me. Solar works in hotter climates where the solar panels generate electricity for the air conditioning systems. When it is nice and sunny here it is not too cold or there is not that same demand for electricity. It depends.

Renewables are a positive story. When one thinks about how renewables penetration in the electricity system has evolved over the past five or ten years, it is a very significant change. If does show, as Deputy Ryan has mentioned earlier, that when the system becomes galvanised it can deliver very significantly. There are big issues on peat extraction which Deputy Stanley would know more about than I would I suspect. Then there is the issue of Moneypoint and what happens there.