Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 29 March 2022

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action

Energy Challenges: Discussion

Mr. Jim Gannon:

It helps a lot. Between the existing east-west interconnector, EWIC, and the Moyle interconnector, we might have in the order of 800 MW or 900 MW import capacity.

The Greenlink interconnector is due to provide in excess of 400 MW of import capacity and the Celtic interconnector is due to provide around 700 MW of import capacity; Mr. Melvin can correct me if I am wrong. That will give us the bones of 2 GW or 2,000 MW, or a little bit more than that, but our demand by 2030 could be in excess of certainly 7,000 MW-----