Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 30 January 2024
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action
General Oversight of EirGrid: Discussion
Jennifer Whitmore (Wicklow, Social Democrats)
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It states:
This does not constitute a moratorium for data centres but according to the CRU’s direction, EirGrid can ‘determine whether a connection offer can be made within the system stability and reliability needs of the electricity network.’ It also means that any new data centre demand must also bring equivalent capacity with it which would be intended to largely offset any further growth in data centre.
Essentially, this is gas generation. The document also states: "This makes new data centres 'net-zero demand' from a GCS adequacy perspective."