The Irish Government is going to sign an agreement early next year which would see an undersea electricity interconnector built to Spain.<\/p>\n
Minister for Climate, Environment and Energy Darragh O’Brien told RT\u00c9 News that he met with his Spanish counterpart this week.<\/p>\n
“Things will have to worked through on exact locations and things like that, but we are working towards a memorandum of understanding in the Spring,” the Minister said.<\/p>\n
It is understood it is more likely that Spain would export energy to Ireland as it frequently has an excess of power.<\/p>\n
Minister O’Brien said the costs of an interconnector with Spain had not yet been confirmed but the project would be likely to be completed in the 2030s.<\/p>\n
He said Europe may co-fund the costs along with Spain and Ireland.<\/p>\n
Minister O\u2019Brien said there had been initial discussions among officials about the project and the first political discussions on the project had happened this week.<\/p>\n
Ireland currently has two interconnectors with Britain called East West and Greenlink with a third, MaresConnect, expected to start operations in 2030.<\/p>\n
France will also be linked to Ireland in 2027 through the Celtic Interconnector.<\/p>\n
Interconnectors allow countries to buy and sell electricity from one another.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Irish Government is going to sign an agreement early next year which would see an undersea electricity…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":138381,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[9,10,13,14,6,11,12,15,16,5,7,8,65,66,67],"class_list":{"0":"post-138380","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-featured-news","11":"tag-featurednews","12":"tag-headlines","13":"tag-latest-news","14":"tag-latestnews","15":"tag-main-news","16":"tag-mainnews","17":"tag-news","18":"tag-top-stories","19":"tag-topstories","20":"tag-world","21":"tag-world-news","22":"tag-worldnews"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138380\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/138381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}