Electricity Regulation
ESB Networks (part of the Electricity Supply Board is responsible for the operation, maintenance and development of the electricity transmission and distribution networks in Ireland. ESB Networks operates independently from other areas of the ESB Group and is required to provide services on a non- discriminatory manner to all customers, regardless of their electricity supplier. All customers are entitled to an equal level of service. ESB Networks is the point of contact when a customer wants a connection to the distribution network or if there is an emergency to report. They also have responsibility for all aspects of metering including meter reading .
Eirgrid is responsible for operating and planning the development of the transmission system and for accepting power generation from ESB Power and other energy operators such as for example Airtricity and Bord Gáis.
The Republic of Ireland electricity market opened fully to competition on the 19 of February 2005 in both the power generation and electricity supply areas. In 2007, the Commission deemed that the market for electricity for Large Energy Users (Industrial) was competitive enough to warrant the removal of its tariff regulation. It is the Commission's aim to encourage full competition in all parts of the market. When the residential market matures as more suppliers enter this segment of the market the current residential tariff regulation may be removed similarly.
Read more about this topic: Commission For Energy Regulation
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—Josephine K. Henry, U.S. suffragist. As quoted in History of Woman Suffrage, vol. 4, ch. 15, by Susan B. Anthony and Ida Husted Harper (1902)
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