Darren O'Rourke (Meath East, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

The Minister of State is familiar with the EnergyCloud model, and the Minister, Deputy Eamon Ryan, has said positive and encouraging things about it. The Minister of State spoke of “dispatch down”. He is the Minister of State with responsibility for the circular economy, and it is a waste of energy. Poor people’s hot tanks are there, waiting to be charged and store that energy. They are immediately available and there is a need to link one with the other. I am not entirely sure from the response the Minister of State gave tonight, or indeed from the written response by the Department to the climate committee today, whether that is seen as an immediate solution. I think it is an immediate solution and it needs immediate action. I wonder, given what the Minister of State has said, if he sees an improved grid and storage elsewhere as the answers.

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