Grid Application

DELAYED +1yr (Apr 2026): There is no evidence as of April 2026 of a grid connection application for Shelmalere with EirGrid/CRU, and the project is classified by DP Energy/Iberdrola as a post‑Phase‑1 (Phase 2) project targeting around 2030 operation. The EIAR scoping report (2022) and CRU consultation response (Dec 2022) confirm early‑stage development but provide no concrete grid application date. With MAC and planning still pending and given typical Irish offshore timelines, it is unrealistic for grid application to have been made in the early 2020s as once planned. I move the grid application to end‑2029, a few years before a realistic early‑2030s commissioning, and later than developer‑implied 2030 targets. DELAYED +6yr (Apr 2026): DP Energy’s 2021 submission to the CRU shows Shelmalere as a Phase 2 offshore wind project aiming for pre‑2030 energisation, implying a grid application earlier in the 2020s. With MAC and planning milestones now clearly delayed beyond original expectations, I shift the projected grid application to 2028 to align with a later Phase 2 schedule. --- The 2023 Shelmalere Offshore Wind Farm project brochure presents an indicative timeline in which submission of a grid connection application is scheduled for 2023, following development consent. This application would start the formal process to connect the approximately 1 GW Shelmalere offshore wind project, via its subsea export cables and onshore substation on Ireland’s east coast, into the national transmission network.