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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Energy Challenges: Discussion (29 Mar 2022)

Christopher O'Sullivan: ...our renewable energy. Surely the focus should be on that technology as opposed to the building of LNG infrastructure. I said last week to EirGrid that we are hearing commentary on the reopening of the peat-powered plants and the bogs, which I absolutely disagree with. I hope the CRU would not advocate that. The other commentary we are hearing is on drilling for gas and oil off the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Energy Challenges: Discussion (29 Mar 2022)

...We need more renewables, more storage, more interconnection and, particularly, more on the demand side. We need to get rid of the older fossil fuel generators such as oil and coal and definitely peat and we need all of that to happen in a very short period. The scale of change we will facilitate, underpin, drive and deliver over the coming years will be massive. These are not choices...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Energy Challenges: Discussion (29 Mar 2022)

...the need for near-term action. I would like to raise an example of another concern we have in Friends of the Earth. Some 15 or 20 years ago, it was extremely clear that Ireland needed to move away from peat extraction and the burning of peat in the electricity sector. That did not happen for the best part of 20 years and, suddenly, there was a crunch leading to major pressures on...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Energy Challenges: Discussion (29 Mar 2022)

...and production, we are actually turning back to being increasingly dependent on this critical piece of infrastructure, this single point of failure. At the same time, we are getting rid of peat, coal and oil in our power generation mix and so we are basically becoming a renewable and gas-only power system. It is a lower carbon approach to delivering electricity. Of course, with the...