Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 29 March 2022

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action

Energy Challenges: Discussion

Mr. Jim Gannon:

Microgeneration is another area in which we have been, and are, actively progressing and accelerating. Another is exploration of the co-location of batteries with wind farms, which I mentioned earlier on. This could tackle security of supply issues, decarbonisation and some power equality issues in the system and allow us to get around some of these infrastructural constraints. I am not ignoring the question on the data centre decision, by the way. I will just ask Dr. McGowan whether he wants to come in before I get to that.