Our 2023 Climate Action Plan (CAP 23) contains several actions to deliver on the decarbonisation of our economy, supported by a robust governance structure. The Climate Action Delivery Board has an enhanced role in relation to delivery, including providing recommendations for overcoming barriers, while taskforces are being established to focus on key specific areas or initiatives of climate delivery that require cross-Government collaboration.
An Accelerating Renewable Electricity Taskforce has been established to identify, coordinate, and prioritise the required policies to achieve the onshore renewable electricity targets, and to ensure that barriers to the implementation of such policies are removed or minimised to the greatest extent possible.
The establishment of the Accelerating Renewable Electricity Taskforce was a Q1 2023 action. The Taskforce membership is comprised of senior officials from the relevant Departments and State Bodies and has held two meetings to date, the first in March and the second in June.
To ensure a consistent approach across Government with respect to offshore wind roll-out, the inter-Departmental, inter-agency Offshore Wind Delivery Taskforce was established in April 2022. This Taskforce was formed in order to accelerate delivery and capture the wider and longer-term economic opportunities associated with the development of offshore wind in Ireland.
Its membership comprises senior officials from the Government Departments and agencies that are vital to the delivery of Ireland’s Offshore Renewable Energy ambitions. This includes the Department of Housing. Local Government and Heritage with respect to marine planning; the Department of Transport with respect to ports infrastructure; and the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment with respect to supply chain matters. Further information is available at gov.ie - Offshore Wind Delivery Taskforce (www.gov.ie), including the Key Actions for 2023 across the across the workstreams the Taskforce has identified.
