Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 22 March 2022

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action

Energy - Ambition and Challenge: Discussion (Resumed)

Mr. Rodney Doyle:

Great Island has been out for a number of months. It was forced off the system because it has a fault. They are working on a fix and we are working closely with them. We hope the power station will come back online even more quickly than was initially indicated. When any large power plant goes out, it tightens our margins and causes us to be more cautious again. This case is no different. We will work with the remaining plant on the system and with our available renewables to manage our way through the summer months. During the summer months, we plan for a number of outages because that is the opportune time to take the outages before the winter. We will operate more tightly and will manage our way through this period.