Energy transition, offshore renewables and electricity interconnection cooperation: extension to the UK - Ireland memorandum of understanding (July 2025)
Updated 15 July 2025
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Agreed between the Irish Department of the Environment, Climate and Communications and the UK Department for Energy Security and Net Zero.
Additional Areas of Cooperation and Information Sharing
Building upon the success of the Energy transition, offshore renewables and electricity interconnection cooperation: UK - Ireland memorandum of understanding, the Participants recognise a desire to deepen cooperation and information sharing in the following additional areas:
- the Participants approaches to decarbonising industries, including measures to ensure the competitiveness of businesses, and reducing the risk of carbon leakage, cognisant of the obligations of Ireland’s EU membership
- decarbonisation of buildings, including focus on the just transition to cleaner forms of heating and improved energy efficiency, to deliver warm homes and maintain energy affordability for households and businesses
- consideration between the Participants and relevant stakeholders of how best to ensure communities benefit from the installation of energy infrastructure
- hydrogen transmission and storage infrastructure, building on the existing cooperation between the Participants in the development of renewable and low carbon hydrogen value chains
- recognising the value of an increase in the exchange of skills and knowledge, including as an enabler of enhanced mutual cooperation, the Participants intend to establish a structured framework for a reciprocal secondment programme between the Participants
Signed in Dublin on 14 July 2025.
For the Department of the Climate, Energy and the Environment
Darragh O’Brien TD
Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment
For the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
Kerry McCarthy MP
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Department for Energy Security and Net Zero