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The Electricity Regulation (Amendment) (EirGrid) Bill 2008 was published on 12 March 2008
The main provisions of the Bill are:
- to expand the functions of EirGrid, the electricity Transmission System Operator, to include the construction, ownership and operation of an interconnector, subject to the grant of relevant licences and authorisations by the Commission for Energy Regulation,
- to provide in primary legislation for subsidiaries of EirGrid, for an increase in the amount of money that EirGrid may borrow and for its total capital expenditure,
- to amend the Electricity Regulation Act 1999 in relation to interconnectors.
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