All-island Single Electricity Market Launched

North-South and wider EU cooperation is only way to stem energy crisis and climate change

12 November 2007

Energy Minister Eamon Ryan today in Belfast, along with his Northern counterpart Nigel Dodds and EU Energy Commissioner, Andris Piebalgs, formally launched the all-island Single Electricity Market.

Under this new market, 2.5 million electricity customers (1.8 million in Ireland, 0.7 million in Northern Ireland) have become part of a single competitive, sustainable and reliable market in wholesale electricity, run on an all-island basis.

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