EUAA Submission: ESB Renewable Energy Zones Consultation Paper
Emily Wood | February 12, 2021
‘…The EUAA welcome this opportunity to make submission to the Renewable Energy Zones Consultation Paper
(Consultation Paper) and commend the ESB on their commitment to stakeholder engagement. We also recognise
the efforts by the ESB to better coordinate the establishment of Renewable Energy Zones (REZ) in previous
consultations in late 2020.
We appreciate the complexity of any reform that seeks to change network access and charging arrangements. In
particular, the existing open access regime always looms as an immovable object in the way of reforms that would
be in the long term interests of consumers.
However, we are also seeing that demonstrating net benefits and gaining regulatory approval for large transmission
assets, including REZ, is becoming more difficult, in part due to the existing regime requiring that consumers carry
all costs and risks…’
Please download attached for full submission.