Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 4 November 2015

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications

Grid Link Project: EirGrid

9:30 am

Mr. Fintan Slye:

That is only one of the reasons for the North-South interconnector. The second reason is that it is a bottleneck. We have an all-island wholesale electricity market and the current single link between the two systems represents a bottleneck that is costing consumers on the island tens of millions of euro every year. All customers will benefit by removing that bottleneck.