Development (Emergency Electricity Generation) Bill 2022
Public bill · Government · Presented
Emergency electricity generation projects could be fast-tracked to help protect Ireland’s power supply during a serious energy crunch linked to exceptional market conditions and the war in Ukraine. The main project named in the explanatory note is up to 450 megawatts of temporary generation on sites at Shannonbridge and Tarbert, and it would move through a special approval process instead of the normal planning route. Environmental checks would still happen, but under an alternative assessment system, with the Minister making the final decision.
Formal long title
Bill entitled an Act to provide for emergency measures for electricity generation development to ameliorate and protect security of supply of electricity in the State because exceptional circumstances have arisen in the market for that supply and further because of the situation in Ukraine; for disapplication of the Planning and Development Act 2000 for the purpose of such development; for such development to be exempt from the provisions of Directive No. 2011/92/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 13 December 2011 on the assessment of the effects of certain public and private projects on the environment amended by Directive 2014/52/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 April 2014, in accordance with Article 2(4) of that Directive; for application of arrangements for the alternative assessment of such development for the purposes of that Directive and the appropriate assessment of such development for the purposes of Council Directive 92/43/EEC of 21 May 1992 on the conservation of natural habitats and of wild fauna and flora, and for the co-ordination of such assessments; and to provide for related matters.
Last updated 11 September 2024
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