Plan to reduce motorway top speed to 110km per hour to 'save energy'

Maximum motorway speed limits may be cut from 120km per hour to 110km per hour under a climate change action plan to be published today.

Minister for Climate Change Denis Naughten will be revealing details of the National Mitigation Plan which has already been approved by Government.

The plan is divided into sections covering decarbonising transport; electricity generation; the built environment and agriculture, The Irish Times reports today.

It includes 106 recommended “actions” identifying which individual Government department is to be held responsible for progress across each of the four key areas.

Recommendations relating to cars include:

- Reducing the top motorway speed from 120 to 110 km/h to save energy - A grant scheme for electric vehicles. - 14 compressed natural gas filling stations by 2020 - A review of vehicle and fuel taxes to encourage decarbonisation of transport by 2050.

The National Mitigation Plan is expected to go online from about noon on the department webside dccae.gov.ie