The Electricity Supply Board has urged government to consider various ways in which different modes of transport could be powered by electricity as a way of reducing Ireland's carbon emissions and meeting EU targets. Speaking at the Irish Management Institute national conference, ESB chief executive Padraig McManus said that the ESB was working towards having zero net carbon emissions by 2035. He estimated that it would take 2,000 megawatts a day to power all of Ireland's cars, noting that this could easily be supplied by electricity companies during the night, when demand is low.