Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 15 October 2019
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment
Gas Networks Ireland's Vision 2050: Discussion
Mr. Brendan Murphy:
We are keen on supporting hydrogen in any way we can. We are talking about some pilot projects using electrolysis from renewable energy to inject hydrogen into the networks. We are very much in favour of that and want it to happen as much as we can. The point I was making earlier was that the scale of the energy provided by gas into Ireland is so huge that one needs a vast amount of wind to make a real dent in the numbers. Wind should be used to generate hydrogen, but it is still small until one has dedicated fields for it.