Electricity use by data centres increased by almost a third last year alone as the sector expanded and activity increased. The 31pc increase in demand in 2022 is just the latest in a series of annual increases which has seen the sector’s energy usage soar by 400pc in the last seven years. The extraordinary growth…
The system alert means that the buffer between the demand for electricity and the available supply is currently below optimum levels. While the alert warns of potential future issues, it does not indicate a current loss of electricity supply to customers. A system alert often passes off without incident once a sufficient buffer between electricity…
5 May 2023 Emer Gerrard Commission for Regulation of Utilities Dublin and Simon O’Hare Utility Regulator Belfast MaresConnect Limited (MCL) welcomes the SEM consultation on Compensation Arrangements for Net Transfer Capacity Reductions published on 15 March 2023 (the Consultation). MaresConnect is a proposed 750MW electricity interconnector linking the power markets of Ireland (IE) and Great…
By Michael Barnard For decades, the world has been moving massive amounts of energy around using steel tubes running along the ground, under the ground and under water. The US alone has about 5 million kilometers of pipelines, which have about four years worth of total steel consumption for the country embodied in them. Now, of course,…
31 March 2023 MaresConnect Limited (MCL) welcomes the consultation on Ofgem’s proposed approach to project delivery delays as part of the timelines and incentives framework applied to the Third Window published on 24 February 2023 (the Consultation). We set out below our responses to each of the consultation questions. 1. Do you agree with the…
3 February 2023 MaresConnect Limited (MCL) welcomes the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy’s (BEIS) consultation on Capacity Market published on 9 January 2023 (the Consultation). We set out below some general points relating to interconnectors and their important contribution to the Capacity Market and request BEIS considers these points in making any changes…