Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 13 June 2023

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action

Decarbonisation of the Heat Sector: Discussion

Mr. Ronan Coffey:

I do not have the figure for the actual quantity of emissions avoided to hand, but we certainly can provide that information. I can say that from a capital cost, it was only a marginal increase on the standard construction because we were able to design it from scratch, rather than it being a retrofit scenario.

It was modelled to be 40% of the energy footprint of a conventional design. The operational data we have seen so far are backing that up.