Power firms win challenge over exclusion from electricity auction

aid the matter should be sent back for fresh consideration, in accordance with law, by the CRU's single electricity market (SEM) committee. Picture: Denis Minihane

The High Court has ordered the utilities regulator to reconsider applications by two power generating firms to be admitted to a public auction system for selling electricity to the national grid.

Mr Justice Micheál O'Higgins ruled that the decision of the Commission for Regulation of Utilities (CRU) to exclude the Kilshane and Coolpowra energy companies from the auction should be quashed.