MaresConnect Response to SEM Committee Consultation on Compensation Arrangements for Net Transfer Capacity Reductions

5 May 2023 Emer GerrardCommission for Regulation of UtilitiesDublin and Simon O’HareUtility RegulatorBelfast 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…

HVDC Is The New Pipeline

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…

MaresConnect’s Response to Consultation on Capacity Market 2023

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…