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.