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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Energy - Ambition and Challenge: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Mar 2022)
Brian Leddin: On behalf of the committee, I welcome our witnesses. Some are new faces and some have been here a few times. From the Irish Energy Storage Association, we have: Mr. Paddy Phelan, president; Mr. Eugene Coughlan, former deputy commissioner at the Commission for Regulation of Utilities; and Mr. Frank Burke, technical adviser, who is joining us online. They are very welcome. From Energy...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Energy - Ambition and Challenge: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Mar 2022)
Brian Leddin: Thank you. I invite Mr. Smith to make his statement.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Energy - Ambition and Challenge: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Mar 2022)
Brian Leddin: Thank you. I invite Dr. Finn to make his opening statement.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Energy - Ambition and Challenge: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Mar 2022)
Brian Leddin: I thank Mr. Foley for his statement and for accelerating its delivery to leave more time for questions. I will now invite members to ask questions. If witnesses want to respond to a question that is not directly addressed to them, please indicate thus and I will bring them in. While the clerk to the committee is putting together the list of speakers, I will kick off the question and answer...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Energy - Ambition and Challenge: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Mar 2022)
Brian Leddin: I am hearing that they are very complementary.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Energy - Ambition and Challenge: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Mar 2022)
Brian Leddin: Just on the-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Energy - Ambition and Challenge: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Mar 2022)
Brian Leddin: I want to ask about how the market needs to be adjusted to support both. I will let the energy storage guys back in on that as well.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Energy - Ambition and Challenge: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Mar 2022)
Brian Leddin: Does Mr. Finn want to answer on latent capacity in the system and on data centres?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Energy - Ambition and Challenge: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Mar 2022)
Brian Leddin: I am tempted to go to EirGrid but those questions might be more for the regulator. Is that fair?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Energy - Ambition and Challenge: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Mar 2022)
Brian Leddin: Does Mr. Foley want to take the question on further interconnection?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Energy - Ambition and Challenge: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Mar 2022)
Brian Leddin: That is good to hear. Separate from that opportunity, given the multiple crises now, there is an urgency that we did not appreciate before. I am tempted to ask how quickly we can do it all but it is probably not fair to put Mr. Foley on the spot. It seems that Europe is at war and a wartime approach is probably needed to build out the infrastructure. We will return to that issue.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Energy - Ambition and Challenge: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Mar 2022)
Brian Leddin: There was a question on meetings.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Energy - Ambition and Challenge: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Mar 2022)
Brian Leddin: It sounds like there needs to some kind of formalised mechanism for that ongoing engagement.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Energy - Ambition and Challenge: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Mar 2022)
Brian Leddin: Is that point captured in Shaping Our Electricity Future?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Energy - Ambition and Challenge: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Mar 2022)
Brian Leddin: Ireland is very much at the leading edge of this. Regarding locating storage close by, there is also the green hydrogen piece, which is separate from the battery piece. How evolved is the thinking on green hydrogen? Obviously, it needs to be put close to where the current gas generation capacity is. Has that part of the strategy evolved yet?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Energy - Ambition and Challenge: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Mar 2022)
Brian Leddin: I thank Mr. Phelan. I am mindful of time. Six members are looking to contribute. Members have two minutes. I gave Senator Boylan latitude simply because I took latitude myself. I will try to keep it to the two minutes if I can. I ask witnesses to be as succinct as possible in their responses.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Energy - Ambition and Challenge: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Mar 2022)
Brian Leddin: I am mindful of the time and I know that other members wish to contribute, but I thank Mr. Keating for his thorough answer.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Energy - Ambition and Challenge: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Mar 2022)
Brian Leddin: I thank Ms McHugh. I move on now to Mr. Foley. Will Mr. Foley answer all of those questions?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Energy - Ambition and Challenge: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Mar 2022)
Brian Leddin: Up to this point, Demand Response Association of Ireland makes submissions on policy or regulation. Is that the only way of engaging with the system or are there no other ways of engagement for bodies such as this?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Energy - Ambition and Challenge: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Mar 2022)
Brian Leddin: I thank the Senator. I am very mindful of time. There are quite a few members who wish to get in. To check with those online, Deputy Bruton had his hand up. Does he intend to ask a question, though not necessarily now?