Energy

Stand-off over power supply crisis shows just how bad the situation is

Interventions being plotted to avoid the projected power deficit this winter go from bad to worse

Eamon Ryan, the Minister for Environment, confirmed today that he had tasked Dermot McCarthy, the former secretary general at the Department of An Taoiseach, to carry out a review of the power system in light of the current crisis.

It is not often that state agencies row openly with one another in public.

Yet the power supply crisis now facing Ireland is of such magnitude that it has caused a substantial rift between those charged with ensuring the lights stay on.

Eirgrid, the electricity grid operator, and the Commission for Regulation of Utilities (CRU), the energy regulator, have differing views on the primary reasons for an emerging power supply deficit, which is expected to ...