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:

Unfortunately, no such option exists, and I will explain the reason. Just to reflect a little on the regional option, what it is and how it works in terms of the technology, it involves deploying this technology on an existing meshed transmission network. The grid in the Republic is developed and operates as a meshed transmission network, and what this technology allows us to do is to transmit more power over that existing meshed transmission network. Unfortunately-----