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:
There is no mesh network between the grid of Northern Ireland and the grid of the Republic, there is only a single network. We need the ability to transfer more power reliably between those two. Between Munster and Leinster, there is a mesh grid on which something can be built but that is not the case between Ireland and Northern Ireland. Each has been developed separately as a mesh transmission network.