Position Description

The energy industry is rapidly evolving to meet Ireland’s societal, economic, and developmental needs. In particular, the need for energy independence and ambitious decarbonisation targets in the government’s Climate Action Plan are placing additional demands on the electricity transmission network and driving changes to the way the system is being developed and managed with particular emphasis on security of supply, price stability and connection of renewable technologies. The Commission for Regulation of Utilities (CRU) requires closer working arrangements between ESB Networks and EirGrid to address these challenges and to meet the objectives set out in the Price Review 5 (PR5) decisions. CRU has introduced additional performance monitoring and reporting requirements, including significant financial incentive and penalty arrangements, across a wide range of transmission capital investment activities.

The Transmission team w...