Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 21 April 2015

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications

North-South Interconnector: EirGrid

11:30 am

Mr. Fintan Slye:

I do not think it would materially change, unless we deployed different technology such as HVDC. Inserting HVDC does have associated transmission losses as in the case of the east-west interconnector. I think the figure for losses is about 5% or 6%. The conversion from HV to DC about which I was talking earlier in response to another question is not without losses.

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