Dr. Paddy Finn:

I wish to acknowledge that some of the fastest demand-response technology in the world has been developed in Ireland, to participate in the Delivering a Secure, Sustainable Electricity System, DS3, services programme and have been developed by some of the members of DRAI. Some of this can achieve a response of full output in as little as 60 milliseconds. This technology, which has been brought by those companies, is being brought to other markets around the world where demand response is somewhat better facilitated in terms of the market structures etc. However, it also gives us a key opportunity to bring back learnings from those markets to help us advance. Ireland and EirGrid, in particular in the work it has done in the past decade looking at DS3 system services, are viewed as an exemplar by those abroad. These markets, in which Ireland's demand-response industry is also operating, got to where they are looking at EirGrid and the example it set. I guess they had the opportunity to leap-frog in terms of the how some of the market integration worked. It is now our opportunity to take some of those learnings and bring them home and advance the market here to make it as facilitating to demand response as those other markets.