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:

Obviously, if we do not get to respond to any question or miss out on responding to some, we would be happy to follow up on them. I will deal with the questions in the order in which they were asked. The first question related to the east-west interconnector and the Ireland-France interconnector and the specific characteristics of those and how they compare with the North-South interconnector. The east-west interconnector is approximately 260 km end to end and it is a 500 MW link. Its power transfer capacity is 500 MW. Does Mr. John Fitzgerald know the length of the Ireland-France interconnector?