ESB
plans
to
spend
€470m
over
the
next
two
years
on
the
programme,
which
includes
building
270km
of
high-voltage
lines
to
flow
clean
electricity
from
windy
western
Ireland
to
population
centres
in
the
east,
and
doubling
the
capacity
of
its
rural
distribution
networks.
In
addition,
the
programme
entails
the
installation
of
several
thousand
electric-vehicle
charge
points
across
the
country,
as
well
as
the
beginning
of
a
national
roll-out
of
smart
meters.
Semi-state
run
ESB
acts
as
Ireland’s
distribution
system
operator
(DSO)
and
owns
just
under
half
of
the
country’s
electricity-generation
capacity.…
