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THE WORLD’S LARGEST cable-laying ship is in Dublin to work on the new electricity connection being laid between Ireland and Britain.
The link will have a capacity of 500MW and will run from Woodland, Co Meath to Deeside, northern Wales, and will facilitate the import and export of energy.
Work on laying and burying the marine section of the cable began last year. EirGrid said last week in its annual report that around 80km of the marine section was completed. Work on the remaining 100km commences today and, subject to conditions, is expected to take up to three weeks, according to EirGrid’s Valerie Hedin.
“The largest cable-laying vessel in the world – 159 metres in length – is setting up 8km off the coast of north County Dublin,” Hedin told TheJournal.ie. “What it’s doing basically is picking up the land cable and shallow water cable and joining it to the marine cable, and will start pulling that cable out across towards the Anglesea coast.”
“Another vessel will come along using remotely-operated equipment and trenching vehicles to lay the cable under the seabed.”
“This is the last piece of the puzzle, so to speak,” Hedin added. “It’s a big milestone for the project.”
In total, the cable’s route length is around 260km: 45km on land in Ireland, 180km underwater, 35km on land in Wales. There will also be converter stations at each end of the cable providing connection to the UK and Irish alternating current systems.
Eirgrid has set a budget of €601 million for the East West Interconnector project, which it expects to be completed this year.
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Wellness retreat with Leigh Arnold. The woman has notions about herself!
@The Thinker: Master begrudgery there!!!!
@The Thinker:
Go forbid anyone having notions about themselves, Bless us & Save us from this curse. Is it true @The Tinker that you’ve started a campaign to bring back the potato as the main food in ireland, just like in the good ole days of the 1800’s.
I went to Ibiza for the first time in August of 2018. I stayed in the north too near Benirras and loved it. It is such an open, tolerant and healthy place. Its really just the SW of the island that has the club scene and even on that side there is beautiful coast and quiet places to take in the view of Es Vedra and more. The swimming in crystal clear torquoise water is pure bliss and healing alone. I camped in a pine forest on a cliff and the dark skies those nights were as good as it gets. There is also a ‘growing’ regenerative living culture which started at ‘Casita Verde’ and is now catching on around the island. I’ve always loved islands including our own and would love to some how do a stint on Ibiza. But it can be very expensive for obvious reasons. Being part of a sustainable community involved in permaculture etc would help greatly. I lived abroad for some years and since coming back I have been unable to settle back into life here as I find it frustrating and there is still a mindset that dominates parts of this country that is mindnumbing. Good on you guys for making the move and going for it! May bump into you next time. :)
Great to hear Leigh and her family are doing well. I could really do with a few days at their retreat, sounds like a really beautiful place. No travel for me anytime soon.
Are they really trying to run it in? Can they not do a postcard from Tory island or somewhere we can actually visit this year?
I want to go to Ibiza!
Strange time to be advertising this.
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