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What is Grid25?
What is Grid25?
Grid25 is EirGrid’s plan to develop and upgrade the electricity transmission network from now until 2025.
This major initiative will put in place a safe, secure and affordable electricity supply throughout Ireland. This is a major undertaking which will take several years, represents an investment of €4 billion.
It involves extensive work throughout the country which includes building 1,150km of new power lines and upgrading 2,300 km of existing lines which will double the size of today’s electricity Grid.
Grid25 is critical to Ireland’s future from both an economic as well as environmental standpoint, and will help secure Ireland’s energy needs for next generations.
The success of Grid25 will depend on how informed our communities are about the benefits of transmission infrastructure to their futures as well as their everyday lives and their support for the infrastructure in their community.
Key messages
1) Grid25 is critical to Ireland's economic recovery - This is because without a 21st Century Grid, Ireland cannot compete for investment on the European or Global stage
2) Grid25 will enable Ireland to have a secure security of electricity supply - This is because a lot of our electricity in presently generated from imported fuels, and Grid25 will reduce this dependency by putting the infrastrucure in place that enables us to use our own natural resources.
3) These home - produced resources (mainly wind) will help the Irish creater less carbon waste and enable us to reach our 40% targets by 2020
To check out the Grid25 programme updates, view:
Grid25 Newsletter Issue 7 April 2012
Grid25 Newsletter Issue 6 December 2011
Grid25 Newsletter Issue 5 October 2011
Grid25 Newsletter Issue 4 July 2011
Grid25 Newsletter Issue 3 April 2011
Grid25 Newsletter Issue 2 December 2010
Grid25 Newsletter Issue 1 August 2010