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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Engagement with the Commission for Regulation of Utilities (9 May 2023)
Jennifer Whitmore: What would that be on a consumer or household basis?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Engagement with the Commission for Regulation of Utilities (9 May 2023)
Jennifer Whitmore: To clarify, Dr. Kavanagh is saying people are going to be paid back money that was taken off them over an 11-year period.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Engagement with the Commission for Regulation of Utilities (9 May 2023)
Jennifer Whitmore: How much will it be on a per-bill basis? I am asking for a guesstimate.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Engagement with the Commission for Regulation of Utilities (9 May 2023)
Jennifer Whitmore: How many electricity customers are there, roughly?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Engagement with the Commission for Regulation of Utilities (9 May 2023)
Jennifer Whitmore: Thus, it is roughly €100 million divided by 2 million customers.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Engagement with the Commission for Regulation of Utilities (9 May 2023)
Jennifer Whitmore: That will start from October.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Engagement with the Commission for Regulation of Utilities (9 May 2023)
Jennifer Whitmore: It will not be paid in full on 1 October, but over a year. Is that correct?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Engagement with the Commission for Regulation of Utilities (9 May 2023)
Jennifer Whitmore: It will be on the bill, okay. On the commission's revenue allowance, as Dr. Kavanagh says the ESB must say each year how much money it is going to be taking in. Has the ESB accounted for the money forgone from the fact it had not been charging the data centre in Clonee for its electricity usage? It was reported in the media at the weekend that because of an error at the substation, the ESB...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Engagement with the Commission for Regulation of Utilities (9 May 2023)
Jennifer Whitmore: When Ms Trant says the ESB recorded an "underusage", it did not record any usage. Is that correct?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Engagement with the Commission for Regulation of Utilities (9 May 2023)
Jennifer Whitmore: Okay.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Engagement with the Commission for Regulation of Utilities (9 May 2023)
Jennifer Whitmore: Is Ms Trant able to give me the figure?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Engagement with the Commission for Regulation of Utilities (9 May 2023)
Jennifer Whitmore: Okay, and at this stage the commission does not know if that is an isolated issue.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Engagement with the Commission for Regulation of Utilities (9 May 2023)
Jennifer Whitmore: I am not sure whether the commission can address this, but Meta would need to keep its accounts on track. I imagine the company would have noticed its bill was particularly low. I imagine it would have gone to the ESB to say there is an issue here, because otherwise it has a liability on its accounting system. Is that something the commission will also be looking into, that is, the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Engagement with the Commission for Regulation of Utilities (9 May 2023)
Jennifer Whitmore: Does Mr. Gannon have concerns about the ESB and the fact there are major technical issues following it around? It does not seem to be on top of the charging mechanisms it has in place.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Engagement with the Commission for Regulation of Utilities (9 May 2023)
Jennifer Whitmore: Some 12 years later.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Engagement with the Commission for Regulation of Utilities (9 May 2023)
Jennifer Whitmore: I know the issue of higher prices has been raised quite often in the meeting today. On a number of occasions, the witnesses specified the rationale behind the reason those prices were increasing. They spoke about the fact that Ireland is an isolated country and how we have a high gas dependency, low interconnection and a dispersed population. That was repeated a couple of times. The one...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Engagement with the Commission for Regulation of Utilities (9 May 2023)
Jennifer Whitmore: The CRU has not done an analysis on exactly what proportion of electricity prices are being derived from which energy generation or demand issues. The CRU has not done that modelling itself.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Engagement with the Commission for Regulation of Utilities (9 May 2023)
Jennifer Whitmore: I am asking about supply and demand. In every open market, there is supply and demand. The more demand, the higher the price. That is just a fundamental economic principle.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Engagement with the Commission for Regulation of Utilities (9 May 2023)
Jennifer Whitmore: I will move on because I am conscious that others wish to come in. The CRU representatives will look into it and examine whether that is a potential. There was a paper out this week by a couple of the economists from the Economic and Social Research Institute, ESRI, about data centres and how the biggest issue is not just the location of the data centres but their magnitude and their...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Engagement with the Commission for Regulation of Utilities (9 May 2023)
Jennifer Whitmore: Would Ms MacEvilly welcome a revisit of the data centre policy and guidelines from the Government to specify that it needs to be economically and carbon sustainable? Would that make the CRU’s job easier? The CRU is looking at it just from the connections perspective but there is this broader thing. At the moment, Government policy is very much that we welcome data centres. Would Ms...