Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 20 September 2022

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action

Engagement with the Commission for Regulation of Utilities

Ms Aoife MacEvilly:

Yes. We can do more, but the kinds of areas that we have been focusing on are, through the capacity remuneration mechanism, bringing on demand-side units at scale and optimising the benefits of those to the system. Mr. Melvin can talk about the work that we are doing to increase the effectiveness of that through the smart metering programme, exactly as Deputy Bruton says, with time-of-use tariffs, the ability to incentivise-----