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

We will clearly say we believe there is an immediate strong and positive role for EnergyCloud and, in the future, for other technologies for an improved grid, improved battery storage, and everything else that goes with that.

I want to know if the Minister of State supports it. If he does support it, what needs to happen is for ESB Networks and the CRU to come together with EnergyCloud to ensure the regulatory processes are in place. The potential is immediately there. They are essentially working on a pilot basis with a number of Clúid houses at this stage. Almost to embarrass us, from time to time they publish the amount of energy that is lost to the system - it is hundreds of millions of euro. At the same time, hundreds of thousands of people are living in energy poverty. The Minister of State needs to act and match those two things up.

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