Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 22 March 2022

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action

Energy - Ambition and Challenge: Discussion (Resumed)

Mr. Bobby Smith:

All the speakers have mentioned that we will need a portfolio of technologies to 2030 and beyond to get where we want to get to. It will not be one technological solution that will deliver the change. We are removing fossil fuel generators and putting in the majority of generation from wind and solar. That will be supported by a variety of technology stores, demand-side responses and other measures. We are working with the other associations. There is enough of it to go around. We will need a lot of demand-side response and storage so that we do not have to compete with each other