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Project advancing - milestone achieved
Medium Impact
Significant progress or notable issue
As part of ESB’s project to link Cape Clear and the Aran Islands to the Irish national grid, subsea power cables were laid to the islands under contract by Balfour Kilpatrick and Hanxsto following route surveys by ESB International. This cable-laying campaign, which formed the Cape Clear/Aran Islands phase of the project later reported as achieving grid connection in 1996, marked the start of physical cable installation for the Aran Islands interconnector.