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Systems Operator Northern Ireland said it had made “what we feel is a fair pay offer which has been rejected by the union”. Photograph: iStock
NI electricity supply under threat as workers plan strike

Power cuts threaten businesses and homes in Northern Ireland next Monday after national grid workers served formal notice of a strike. Workers at Eir(...)

The North’s regulator denied Brexit was behind its move to set up its own retail IT system, insisting the timing was purely coincidental. Photograph: Reuters
Northern Ireland threat to all-island electricity market

The drive to create an all-island electricity market is under threat with the Northern Ireland Utility Regulator planning to break from the Republic o(...)

Northern Ireland’s power plants may have sufficient capacity to supply the region, albeit at higher prices than now.
North faces post-Brexit electricity price hike of at least 30%

Homes and businesses in the North face possible 30 per cent-plus electricity price rises should the UK crash out of the EU without a deal. The North (...)

Galway Wind Park, Ireland’s largest onshore wind farm, which was co-developed by SSE and Coillte in Cloosh Valley, Connemara.
‘The next 10 years are going to see change that we probably cannot imagine’

Spurred on by the crisis that is being caused by climate change, the world’s global energy market is undergoing unprecedented upheaval. And the pace w(...)

Cars in the flooded car park near the Galway Atlantaquaria in Salthill during Storm Eleanor. Photograph: Joe O’Shaughnessy
New wind warning issued as 16,000 remain without power

Met Éireann has issued a wind warning for parts of the country for the early hours of Thursday after Storm Eleanor brought heavy winds, rain and flood(...)

Staff from the Northern Ireland Road Service close the Peace Bridge in Derry, as Hurricane Ophelia hits the UK. Photograph: Liam McBurney/PA Wire
Storm Ophelia causes significant disruption in Northern Ireland

Storm Ophelia caused significant disruption in Northern Ireland with some 18,500 households left without power, while schools, universities and severa(...)