The construction of new subsea ICs will have many beneficial impacts for Ireland – most notably for the renewables sector, according to an analysis by the Economic and Social Research Institute, a Dublin-based think tank.
But such ICs will come with a host of unintended and unwelcome consequences if the current renewables support regime is not altered, the report concludes.
Ireland’s electricity system presently boasts just a single connection with the outside world – the 500MW Moyle IC running between Northern Ireland’s Country Antrim and Scotland.
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