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SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

MEETING OF SDZ, LAPS AND PLANNING PROJECTS

Friday, January 26, 2018

MOTION NO. 222

MOTION: Councillor D. O'Brien

Page 73, under Heat Networks, insert “a public utility or” before “an energy service company” to read “for example a public utility or an energy services company…”

Louise Dunne, Cathal King, Danny O’Brien, Mark Ward

REPORT:

Response

This motion relates Section 2.9.8 Energy & Climate Change Mitigation and delivering a potential heat network at Clonburris by stating that such a scheme could be attractive to not just an energy service company, but a public utility also.

The motion is considered acceptable.

Recommendation

It is recommended that this motion is adopted.

On page 73 amend the wording of the final paragraph as follows:

There are a range of delivery models and financing structures that could be used to unlock the investment required for the local heat networks at Clonburris. The development level expected at the Clonburris and Kishoge urban centres suggests that the heat network scheme could be attractive to a private sector investor, for example a public utility or an energy service company (ESCO) or utility (or consortium) may undertake to design, build, finance and operate the heat network.

Strategic Environmental Assessment of Chief Executive’s Recommendation

No interaction with Strategic Environmental Objectives.

Appropriate Assessment Screening of Chief Executive’s Recommendation

No likely significant effects on European sites within the SDZ’s zone of influence are predicted.