Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I thank the Deputy. We have had some briefings from EirGrid and from the Commission for Regulation of Utilities in Ireland, CRU, in recent weeks and they have developed a plan to ensure that we will have enough electricity not just this winter but for the next four or five winters and that we can cater for increased demand for electricity from industry and households over that period. It involves more renewables but also leaving some power stations operating that it had intended to close. These will need to continue to operate for another couple of years. It also involves new auctions for energy and some new capacity by way of new turbines.

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