The ESB Electronic Communications Networks Act, 2013 enables the ESB to engage in installing and operating electronic communications networks and providing electronic communications services.\u00a0 It may do it by itself or in conjunction with another entity.<\/p>\n
The definition of electric line is extended to include infrastructure associated with electric lines for the purpose of carrying electronic communications services.<\/p>\n
The ESB may provide access to its electricity infrastructure to another company for the purpose of developing an electronic communications network and services, or it may facilitate such development.<\/p>\n
Electric lines under the Act, including the ESB Acts, 1927 to 2013, and the Electricity Regulation Act unified so as to extend to include electric lines for the purpose of carrying out electronic communications service.<\/p>\n
The existing Electricity Supply Act provisions in relation to statutory wayleave powers across private land are extended. Access to infrastructure may be granted to other companies.\u00a0 The powers are subject to the consent of the Commission for Energy Regulation.<\/p>\n
The powers to fix wires to walls, houses and buildings are not applied to electronic communication networks and, accordingly, are inapplicable to this business.<\/p>\n
ESB established cars in 2010 to roll out the charging infrastructure for electric vehicles (EVs) and to support the introduction and demand for EVs nationally. Critical to the take up of electric vehicles is the provision of conveniently positioned charge points across the island of Ireland. There are currently 1,300 public charge points across the island of Ireland, with the rollout of fast chargers and superhubs to facilitate the increasing uptake of EVs.<\/p>\n
Electric Ireland is the retail arm of ESB and operates in all market segments in the Republic of Ireland. Electric Ireland also supplies energy and services to business and residential customers in Northern Ireland. Electric Ireland is now recognised as a leading retail brand by Irish consumers and businesses.<\/p>\n\n
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Ringsend When it was built in 1955, Ringsend station was the largest in the Irish Electricity network. It was developed in two stages, Ringsend \u201cA\u201d of 90,000 kW capacity, commissioned in 1955-56 and Ringsend \u201cB\u201d of 180,000 kW capacity, commissioned in 1965-56: RINGSEND Acomprised four Babcock and Willcox 200,000 lb.\/hr. boilers delivering steam at 625 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[194],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13412"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13412"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13412\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31622,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13412\/revisions\/31622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}