A Mayo-based Senator has said that private wires will provide a “great opportunity” to “realise economic development” in the county.
Fine Gael’s Mark Duffy was speaking following a meeting of the Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment, and Energy which was conducting pre-legislative scrutiny of the Private Wires Bill.
Currently, only the ESB can provide wires that bring electricity from a generator to a customer, but privately built wires are set to be allowed in certain circumstances.
Senator Duffy has been speaking to Midwest Radio’s Scott Stephens, and he was asked to explain what private wires are and how they can help us reach our climate targets…
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