Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 4 October 2022

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action

Energy Prices: Discussion

Mr. Pat Fenlon:

The distribution of the use of electricity and a reduction at peak time is important to us. That is evidenced by the effort we have put in to the promotion of smart metering tariffs and the smart metering tariffs that we have available, which do provide incentives for customers if they can move their load away from the peak time. We understand not every customer can do that, but we do have alternative offerings available. For example, one of the tariffs allows a free weekend day on a Saturday or Sunday. We do have incentives available in the smart metering tariffs for customers to shift the load where they can. We are happy to work with customers to see what will suit.