EirGrid
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| legal form | Public company |
| founding | 2001 |
| Seat | Dublin |
| management | Dermot Byrne (CEO) |
| Number of employees | 250 |
| Branch | Transmission system operator |
| Website | www.eirgrid.com |
EirGrid is the Irish transmission system operator for electricity. Founded in 2001, the wholly state owned company is headquartered in Dublin . The company is a suitcase word made up of "Éire", the Gaelic word for Ireland, and "Grid", English for electricity network.
History and holdings
EirGrid was created in 2001 as a spin-off from the also state-owned electricity company Electricity Supply Board (ESB). Like the ESB, EirGrid is wholly owned by the Irish state and managed by the relevant Irish ministry, the Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources .
EirGrid has the following subsidiaries and holdings:
- System Operator Northern Ireland (SONI Ltd), the TSO of Northern Ireland
- Single Electricity Market Operator (SEMO), operator of the electricity market of Ireland
- East West Interconnector, the first high voltage direct current transmission line between Ireland and Wales
activities
EirGrid operates the electricity transmission network in Ireland . This includes 6,500 km of overhead lines , including extra-high voltage (400 kV ) and distribution network lines (110 and 220 kV) as well as 100 transformer stations. The transmission network is owned by ESB National Grid (ESBNG), which also operates the network technically. EirGrid is only responsible for economic operation and non-discriminatory network access.
EirGrid is the only Irish company in the Association of European Transmission System Operators (ENTSO-E).
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ About us ( Memento of the original from January 19, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the EirGrid website (Accessed February 3, 2012.)
- ↑ Transmissions ( Memento of the original dated February 8, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the EirGrid website (Accessed February 3, 2012.)
- ^ Claus Möllinger: Ownership unbundling of the transmission networks . Lang, Frankfurt am Main 2009, ISBN 978-3631593356 , pp. 123-125.
- ↑ ENTSO-E Member Companies. In: entsoe.eu. Retrieved February 1, 2018 .
Coordinates: 53 ° 19 '53 " N , 6 ° 13' 53" W.