Consultation on Proposed Electricity Transmission Licence for Transmission Investment LIRIC Limited

The Utility Regulator today publishes a Notice under Article 10(4) of the Electricity (Northern Ireland) Order 1992 proposing the potential grant of a licence to participate in the transmission of electricity to Transmission Investment (TI) LIRIC Limited.

Under the proposed licence Transmission Investment intends to build a 700MW interconnector between Northern Ireland and Scotland, currently known as the Lir Interconnector or LirIC.

A copy of the proposed licence accompanies this notice.

We welcome feedback to this consultation on the proposed electricity transmission licence by 4pm on 25 July 2024.

Additional information: 

• Copies of all documents will be made available in large print, Braille, audio cassette and a variety of relevant minority languages if required.

• Your response may be made public by the Utility Regulator. If you do not want all or part of your response or name made public, please state this clearly in the response by marking your response as ‘CONFIDENTIAL’.

• If you want other information that you provide to be treated as confidential, please be aware that, under the Freedom of Information Act 2000, there is a statutory Code of Practice with which public authorities must comply and which deals, amongst other things, with obligations of confidence. In view of this, it would be helpful if you could explain to us why you regard the information you have provided as confidential.

• Information provided in response to this consultation, including personal information, may be subject to publication or disclosure in accordance with the access to information regimes (these are primarily the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FOIA) and the Data Protection Act 2018 (DPA)).

• As stated in the GDPR Privacy Statement for consumers and stakeholders, any personal data contained within your response will be deleted once the matter being consulted on has been concluded though the substance of the response may be retained.

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