New potential landfall sites for power cable

EirGrid has identified new potential landfall locations on the East Cork coast for a proposed €1bn subsea power cable between Ireland and France.

New potential landfall sites for power cable

The state-owned company, which manages and operates the country’s transmission grid, said it now needs to survey the corridor routes which lead to two popular beaches near Youghal, to determine whether the 600km Celtic Interconnector cable could be brought ashore there.

These new surveys, which follow similar work on other nearby route and landfall options, are necessary to provide additional options for the cable and to avoid what the company described as “areas of challenging geology” identified on the approach to the coast. The additional options include:

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