Dáil Éireann Debate, Thursday - 13 July 2023
192. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications to report the percentage of demand for gas in all sectors including electricity generation, residential, and industrial and commercial broken down by retail, construction, laundry, leisure, air travel, data centres, pharma, hospitals, and any other key sectors, relative to the reference period for the year 2023, in tabular form. [35280/23]
View answerThe information below was provided by GNI.
The table below shows the percentage of demand for gas in all sectors relative to the reference period for the year 2023.
*Please note that GNI only has granular demand data by sector going back to 2018, therefore reference period used is 2018 to 2022.
* The reference period is assumed to be from January to June inclusive for the years 2018 –2022 in order to compare against 2023 year to date.
* Please note that Manufacturing includes oil refining and data centres. Given the small number of customers in these categories, data is aggregated to comply with confidentiality obligations.
|
Sector |
Delta (H1 2023 vs H1 2018-2022) |
|
Overall Demand |
-4% |
|
Overall Demand excluding power generation |
-11% |
|
ROI Power Generation |
2% |
|
Residential |
-21% |
|
Small and Medium Enterprises |
-15% |
|
I&C Total |
-4% |
|
CNG |
118% |
|
Construction |
-49% |
|
Education Campuses |
-1% |
|
Food and Beverage |
-7% |
|
Hospital |
6% |
|
Laundry |
19% |
|
Leisure / Sport Arenas |
-2% |
|
Manufacturing* |
-4% |
|
Medical Devices |
6% |
|
Office Complexes |
-16% |
|
Pharma |
14% |
|
Prison |
-11% |
|
Retail |
42% |
|
Air Travel |
-9% |
|
Waste Management |
-46% |
|
Hotel |
9% |
