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:

An underground line has to be a high-voltage, direct current, HVDC, line to go the length of North-South which is 140 km. With a 220 kV line, we would still be achieving only a very small proportion of the length that could go underground. Bringing it back from 400 kV to 220 kV would maybe get-----

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