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.