Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 5 October 2021

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action

Energy Charter Treaty, Energy Security, Liquefied Natural Gas and Data Centres: Discussion (resumed)

Mr. Jim Gannon:

I apologise as it is an important point. I neglected to mention that we also now have over 500,000 smart meters deployed, meaning people will soon have the ability to access smarter tariffs. It will help them to avoid some of the higher-priced periods during the day, which in effect is mass demand-side response. It will again help us to address that peak demand and allow consumers to reduce the impact on themselves by avoiding certain periods during the day. My colleague, Ms MacEvilly, can go into that in more detail.