Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 6 December 2023
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection
Water and Energy Connections in Rural Areas: Discussion
Mr. Nicholas Tarrant:
We have a predominantly overhead line network meaning that, unfortunately, outages are part of that regime. We do a lot of work to maintain it. We are still investigating the root cause of this one but it was an unusual one. Therefore, we do not expect it to be some kind of systemic issue for customers in the north Mayo and Sligo area. We have a 6:1 ratio of overhead lines to cables. Unfortunately, with an overhead line network we will have faults on the network. We are investing very heavily to reduce those. We have a big investment programme. As part of our contracts under the regulatory framework, we are incentivised to address it.
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