Energy blackouts more likely this year than last

No 'cast-iron guarantee' there will not be blackouts this winter, Dáil climate change committee told

Environment Minister Eamon Ryan speaking before the Oireachtas Committee on Environment and Climate Action in Dublin about Ireland's electricity prices and the threat of blackouts this winter. 

The chance of energy blackouts is more likely this year than it was in 2021, an Oireachtas committee has heard.

Ireland’s energy watchdog, the Commission for the Regulation of Utilities (CRU), grid operator EirGrid, and Energy Minister Eamon Ryan all appeared before a lengthy hearing of the Oireachtas climate change committee amid an increase in system warnings — alerts that the buffer between what is produced and what is demanded are narrow.