Debate contribution: Electricity Supply
Debate contribution by Mr Conor Murphy on .
- MLA
- Mr Conor Murphy
- Party at the time
- Sinn Féin
- Date
- 20 January 2025
- Type
- Debate contribution (made as a minister)
- Business
- Oral Answers to Questions
- Heading
- Electricity Supply
- Assembly identifier
- Official Report component 4744601
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We engage regularly with the Utility Regulator and the supply side for electricity and energy generally — we do something similar with gas — to try to make sure that there is confidence that supplies will remain sufficient to meet our needs. Of course, we cannot predict what weather circumstances might arise, but we have not had that kind of extreme weather since storm Darragh. My understanding is that we are sufficiently covered for the remainder of the winter. We will keep on top of it. Officials will continue to engage with all those in the sector to make sure that there is an understanding of what the challenges are and to ensure that we build in more security of supply in the short term over the winter and in the long term.
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