Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 15 February 2022

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action

Commission for Regulation of Utilities Strategic Plan: Discussion

Dr. Paul McGowan:

I will address the question on enabling 95% of grid capacity for renewables. Given that we have a target to get up to 80% of renewables by 2030, we know what it is we need to do. From a policy perspective, I do not believe we have identified any policy deficit. It is a matter of industry needing to get on and do this. A programme is already under way to develop the system services into a new market for competitive system services and the new products that will be necessary to deliver on 95%. It is now a matter of getting on with it and doing it, rather than there being any policy gap. I just wanted to address that point.