Paul Donnelly (Dublin West, Sinn Fein)

EnergyCloud is a not-for-profit social enterprise. It works with partners including EirGrid, ESB, Wind Energy Ireland, local authorities and housing associations. Its aim is to reduce energy poverty. In the last seven years, €2.1 billion in surplus renewable energy was unused and wasted. Some €3 million worth of wind energy was wasted on 28 May this year. EnergyCloud has a simple ask:

If the Government were to announce a policy recommending that going forward all devices, heat pumps, batteries, [and] immersion controllers ... should be connected and support Demand Flexibility this would open the possibility of using the waste in a targeted fashion and future proof all new and upgraded homes.

It does not need legislation; it just needs a direction and a policy from the Department. Will the Taoiseach ask the Department to issue that?

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