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SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

MEETING OF SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

Tuesday, April 11, 2023

QUESTION NO. 6

QUESTION: Councillor Lyn Hagin Meade

To ask the manager in relation to the District Heating Project in Tallaght, how service users will be charged (prices) for heating and if the charges will be linked to energy price increases in Ireland and Europe?

REPLY:

The Tallaght District-heating network is designed to deliver low-carbon heat as a decarbonising technique under the Councils Climate-action strategy.

Due to the high efficiency of its centralised system which recycles waste-heat as an input fuel, the cost of heat will be lower for the customer than that provided by individual air-source heat-pump technology, the only other viable alternative system not dependent on fossil fuel. Waste heat is recycled and consolidated using electricity and as a result will fluctuate with electricity-market prices in Ireland.

Heatworks CLG is a publicly owned not-for-profit heat-energy supplier. The heat price to customers will reflect the actual costs of producing the heat and maintaining the efficiency of the network including significant carbon-savings.