A former head of the ESB is warning the EU's plans for the energy crisis could discourage investment in the renewable's sector.
European energy Ministers including Eamon Ryan will meet this Friday to decide how the union can tackle the ongoing power dilemma which has been brought on by the war in Ukraine.
Reports say officials are planning to impose a price cap on lower-cost energy producers as part of the talks.
Don Moore is the chair of the Energy and Climate Action Committee at the Irish Academy of Engineers.
He says that move may actually harm the push for renewable's here in the future.
"We need to be cautious about unintended consequences here.
"Ireland has enough obstacles to future generation investment with our dysfunctional planning system, and our inability to build transmission lines to actually link this renewable programme."
