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The Moyle Interconnector began trial commercial operation and started transmitting power between the electricity systems of Northern Ireland and Great Britain on 1 January 2002, marking the first power flows over the 500 MW HVDC link. This trial commercial period ran from 1 January to 9 April 2002 while initial defects and teething problems were addressed.