Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 4 October 2022

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action

Energy Prices: Discussion

Mr. Nicholas Tarrant:

To clarify that point, it is a question for the generation part of the ESB that looks after Moneypoint, but we are happy to feed back the question or if the committee chooses, it can write to the ESB to get a response on it. Unfortunately, it is not something we can comment on today.

There are probably a couple of dimensions to answering the question on data centres and demand. I might ask Mr. Duignan to comment on the decision made by the CRU on the policy on connecting data centres and where that is at. I might come back to the second part of the question, which is what happens in the event of system alerts or emergencies in situations relating to large users and domestic customers. Mr. Duignan might first take the question on the announcement by the CRU on policy on data centres.