Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 31 January 2023

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action

Engagement with the Commission for Regulation of Utilities

Ms Karen Kavanagh:

With regard to the decision set out by the commission, the documents at the time set out the commission's implementation plan.

It was that €50 million was to be split between distribution and transmission revenue between EirGrid and ESB Networks. As Ms MacEvilly stated, on foot of the commencement of our overall network tariff structure review, the planning for which started in 2020, in the revenue decisions in 2020 and 2021 we flagged that we would be looking at this and reversing this decision. In March last year, we engaged with ESB Networks and EirGrid to do preliminary analysis around looking at the reversal of that measure. At that time, the commission decided to reverse that decision. In that process, ESB Networks identified to us that it had applied this measure as an annual percentage and not as a fixed amount.