Document, which explores allowing businesses to build their own power lines flags threats to energy supply, increased household bills and ‘fatal accidents’
Eamon Ryan, the Minister for Environment, has set up a long-awaited consultation into whether businesses should be allowed to build their own power lines to connect to solar and wind farms.
Under the 1999 Electricity Regulation Act, only the ESB can build a power line to connect a business or household to the national electricity grid. But some private companies have maintained that they would be able to put new power lines in place much ...
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