Michael Moynihan (Cork North West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

The Minister and the Department will have to look carefully at the biomass issue. I have examined the use of biomass at the Drax power station in the United Kingdom, a station which generates 10% of the United Kingdom’s electricity requirements.

On the Minister’s point about transportation costs of biomass to the Moneypoint station, the same costs are already in place for transporting coal there. The boilers installed in the plant when it was constructed in 1979 are easier to convert to biomass than any other alternative fuel. Biomass should be put high on the renewables agenda because it is the best way to see reductions in carbon emissions.

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