A scheme for harnessing Shannon was enacted under the Shannon Water and Electric Power Act 1901.\u00a0 It was seen as too costly and was quickly shelved.<\/p>\n
The First World War arrested the expansion of electricity services to new customers.\u00a0 It was impossible to raise funds to expand the existing system.<\/p>\n
In 1921, the Dail and later provisional government set up a Commission of Inquiry into the resources and industry of Ireland.\u00a0 In 1921, an Irish committee of the UK government reported.\u00a0 Both reports came to the broad conclusion in favour of developing the country\u2019s water resources for the use of electricity generation.<\/p>\n\n
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