Publications

This report is an annual requirement to enable the Commission for the Regulation of Utilities (CRU) to assess and score ESB Networks’ on the quality, implementation and effectiveness of its stakeholder engagement in the previous year.

Consultation Question

As part of ESB Networks’ ongoing collaboration and communication with our stakeholders, we wish to hear your views on this report and on how ESB Networks’ engaged with you throughout 2022.

Next Steps

Interested stakeholder’s views are invited and all comments and feedback may be sent directly to stakeholder@esbnetworks.ie . Please mark as confidential, if you do not wish for elements of your response to be shared in the subsequent consultation response report.

The consultation period will run from Thursday 23^rd March 2023 until 17.00hrs on Tuesday 25^th April 2023.

In the meantime we look forward to hearing from you and wish to thank you for your ongoing support and feedback.

Standard Connection agreement for demand and generator connections where the maximum capacity exceeds 100kVA.

The purpose of this consultation is to seek views from industry on the joint proposal from EirGrid and ESB Networks to introduce contestability of commissioning for customer connections to the electricity system at transmission and distribution level.

The purpose of this consultation is to seek views from industry on the joint proposal from EirGrid and ESB Networks to introduce contestability of commissioning for customer connections to the electricity system at transmission and distribution level.

This document summarises the specification for standard underground ducting for use on ESB Networks' System.

Led by IERC, the StoreNet project comprised of a consortium of partners which includes ESB Networks, SMS plc (previously Solo Energy) and Electric Ireland. The project aim was to develop and deploy an intelligent Virtual Power Plant (VPP) consisting of distributed energy storage (batteries) installed at residential settings on the distribution network with the intention of maximising learnings on the potential benefits from the energy storage system.

The purpose of this consultation is to seek views and feedback on the information detailed in the Strategic Stakeholder publications (Strategic Stakeholder Engagement Framework and Strategic Stakeholder Engagement Plan 2020).

Strategic Stakeholder Engagement Plan 2020 | PDF | 1MB

Background and Process

In order to continually enhance and develop our engagement approach, ESB Networks is consulting with customers and stakeholders on its approach to stakeholder engagement (set out in the Strategic Stakeholder Engagement Framework) and its planned key area of engagement activity during 2020 (set out in the Strategic Stakeholder Engagement Plan 2020).

Associated with this, ESB Networks is required to submit an annual report on its stakeholder engagement strategy and activities to enable the CRU to assess and score ESB Networks on the quality, good implementation and effectiveness of its stakeholder strategy in the previous year. This is detailed in the CRU decision paper Reporting and Incentives under PR4, (CER/18/087).

Consultation Question

Do you have any comments on the ESB Networks Strategic Stakeholder Engagement Framework and Strategic Stakeholder Engagement Plan 2020?

Next Steps

The consultation period will run for four (4) weeks and will close on the 20th December 2019. When the consultation closes, ESB Networks will review and consider all the comments and publish a final version of the Strategic Stakeholder Engagement Framework & the Strategic Stakeholder Engagement Plan 2020.

Please send your comments to:

Contact Name: Strategic Engagement Manager, ESB Networks

Contact Email: stakeholder@esbnetworks.ie

Closing Date for Responses: 5pm on 17th January 2020.

PLEASE NOTE: ESB Networks may publish responses that we receive, so if you don’t want your response published you should mark your response as confidential.

2023 Consultation Response Document

EirGrid and ESB Networks, in their respective capacities as Transmission System Operator (TSO) and Distribution System Operator (DSO),  are now jointly publishing their response to the consultation on the DSO/TSO Multi-Year Plan 2023 – 2027.

Following closure of the public consultation on 10 March 2023, ESB Networks and EirGrid are jointly publishing this detailed consultation response, acknowledging, and reflecting on, the respondents’ feedback.

Having reviewed the responses, a revised Multi-Year Plan was submitted to the CRU in May 2023, which is also available on the EirGrid library and ESB Networks website.