Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 18 October 2022

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment

Estimates for Public Services 2022 (Supplementary)
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications

Photo of Jennifer WhitmoreJennifer Whitmore (Wicklow, Social Democrats)
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The Minister mentioned that the backup generation of large energy users, in particular data centres, will need to be made available to the grid. Obviously, that does not apply retrospectively to those who are currently operating or have their permissions granted. Has the Department looked at what generation capacity is available within those existing data centres and looked at ways to have that made available and distributed to the grid if there is a possibility to use those in any manner?