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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Engagement with the EU Commissioner for Energy (2 Jun 2022)

Cormac Devlin: I welcome Ms Simson and thank for her remarks, particularly as regards the REPower EU plan. Obviously, the emphasis of the plan has changed, given the geopolitical events Europe is facing. I am particularly struck by the need to protect and support Ukraine, Moldova and the Baltic states. I had the opportunity to visit Lithuania recently. I saw what it did long before the Russian...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Engagement with the EU Commissioner for Energy (2 Jun 2022)

Róisín Garvey: It is an honour to be here today and it is great to have the Commissioner and her team before the committee. I welcome RePowerEU and the plan to rapidly reduce the dependence on Russian fossil fuels and fast-forward the green transition. What does the Commission propose to do to support states and businesses to ramp up the production of low carbon energy products such as solar PV, offshore...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Engagement with the EU Commissioner for Energy (2 Jun 2022)

...allowing member states to dedicate certain territories as go-to zones where the permitting process is handled faster. We also proposed there should be shorter processes when people want to re-power existing wind boxes. This applies to wind boxes built ten or 20 years ago but, with the new technology, can now produce significantly more using the same land space. We also proposed that the...