Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 24 March 2022

Public Accounts Committee

Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland: Financial Statements 2020

9:30 am

Photo of Jennifer Carroll MacNeillJennifer Carroll MacNeill (Dún Laoghaire, Fine Gael)
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There is much discussion in the industry of when floating turbines may come. What is Mr. Meally's perception of that? The opportunity off the west coast is without parallel. All the briefing documents, including the documents on SEAI's website, the 2011 to 2050 strategy, show that the opportunity is without parallel. That document from 2011 suggests that in the period from 2020 to 2030, we would be exporting energy as a consequence of wave energy, but now potentially floating offshore wind. Where are we on that?