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The Maritime Area Regulatory Authority (MARA) approved a Maritime Usage Licence (MUL) for EirGrid, authorising marine and coastal survey activities from Maritime Area A (Tonn Nua) along Ireland’s south coast. This permit enables EirGrid, as transmission system operator, to carry out extensive geophysical, environmental, metocean and intertidal landfall investigations to define export cable corridors and offshore substation locations for the Powering Up Offshore – South Coast / Tonn Nua (Maritime Area A) grid connection.