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ElectroCity Ireland. @electrocityireland ‧. 346 subscribers ‧ 73 videos. With stores in Kilkenny, Carlow and Waterford, ElectroCity is one of the largest independent electrical retailers in...
- The Early Days of Electricity in Ireland
- A Bright Vision For The Future
- Shannon Comes Online.
- The Case For Rural Electrification
- Promoting Electricity to Rural Ireland
- A Herculean Effort
- Life After The Switch on
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Thomas Edison produced the first reliable and commercially usable electric light bulb in 1879 and the history of electricity in Ireland began soon after in 1880, when the first public electric light was installed at Princes Street in Dublin at the Freeman’s Journal offices. In the same year, the Dublin electrical service vendors and the municipal c...
In 1923, a young engineer from Drogheda called Thomas McLaughlin returned to Ireland after a period working abroad with Siemens in Berlin and studying hydroelectric schemes throughout Europe. With this knowledge, he proposed damming the River Shannon and building an electric power station at Ardnacrusha in County Clare to bring power to towns and c...
In July 1929, the Shannon scheme was completed and officially opened by Premier W T Cosgrove. It was generating electricity in October of the same year. By 1935 it was producing 80 per cent of Ireland’s electricity. The scale of the project and the vision of its sponsors should not be underestimated and at the time, it was the largest hydroelectric...
Work did not start on rural electrification until the end of the Second World War or as it was called in Ireland the ‘Emergency’. It was not until the Rural Electrification Scheme (1946) and the Electricity Supply Amendment Act (1955) were passed that the electricity network started to reach the most rural and isolated communities in the country. D...
One of the most potent propaganda tools in rural Ireland at the time was the parish priest in the pulpit. Throughout rural Ireland the ESB worked with the local clergy, who were then used to extoll the virtues of the new technology and the benefits of electrification. Although it would never be economically viable to connect some sparsely populated...
The Rural Electric Scheme was a massive project, the work would require over 1 million poles erected with 78,754km of wire used. It would eventually cost £36m equivalent to €1.5bn today. The first phase of the scheme ended in 1965 and by then, over 300,000 homes were connected. Post-development plans and extensions ran until 1978 when Blackvalley, ...
Once a community was connected, or about to be connected, the ESB held public demonstrations of household appliances. These were then sold bringing electric irons, kettles, stoves to homes. The demonstration evening in Glenamaddy was held in January 1951. The handwritten report records that it took place “in the very fine Esker Ballroom”; these eve...
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The electricity sectors of the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland are integrated and supply 2.5 million customers from a combination of coal, peat, natural gas, wind and hydropower. In 2022, 34 TWh were generated. [1] .
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With stores in Kilkenny, Carlow and Waterford, ElectroCity is one of the largest independent retailers in Ireland. Established in 1993, we now employ over 50 people across the south east and pride ourselves on the quality of products we sell and the excellence of service we provide.
