Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 30 January 2024
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action
General Oversight of EirGrid: Discussion
Mr. Mark Foley:
EirGrid does not create 1 MW of demand. The Economic and Social Research Institute, ESRI, produces the economic growth and population growth figures. Government policy produces electrification plans for heat and transport and large energy users are a product of Government policy. We simply report the numbers and our job as a licensed TSO and a statutory authority is to get prepared for that and not have the power system fall over because we did not predict it or did not do our job. We are just reporting it.