Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 11 October 2022

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action

Retrofitting Schemes: Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland

Photo of Ruairí Ó MurchúRuairí Ó Murchú (Louth, Sinn Fein)
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On district or communal heating systems, dual location and geothermal may offer options which make complete sense and this can happen very fast. Has SEAI looked into in any way, shape or form at anything in that area? Poolbeg is obviously waste heat. I was in the regional development centre in Dundalk Institute of Technology, DkIT, and it looked at studies being done on excess heat that could be contained and moved via truck-type units. I was wondering what the viability was of such a scenario. Is SEAI aware of some of these ongoing research projects?