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 4744613
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Text
The solution will be a mixture of all. Of course, in order to meet our targets for climate change, which the Executive and the Assembly have agreed to, and which are very challenging, we have to ensure that we have a renewable supply. Given our location, our geography and our position on the western Atlantic, there is real potential there for renewable energy and for the industry to gear itself up for that. A long-term ambition on the island of Ireland is to be a net exporter of energy, which would be very beneficial not just to the security of supply for our customers here but for profit generally on the island. It is not a matter of trading one off against the other; it is a matter of trying to ensure that all options are open to us so that, if we end up in the situation where, I hope, that ambition is realised and we are a net exporter, interconnection goes both ways and we will be able to sell electricity off the island.
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