EIRGRID TO CREATE 100 JOBS IN WEST

Date Published: 16-Jan-2012

Up to 100 jobs will be created in Galway and the West over the next three years as the first phase of the 'Grid West' project gets underway.

Jobs in the engineering, environmental, planning and communications services will be created as the plan for developing the electricity grid in the west comes together.

Galway based Tobin Consulting engineers has been appointed to provide its sevices for state agency Eirgrid's 240 million euro project.

Eirgrid manages the national grid, the network that transmits electricity from power plants to the distribution system.

Speaking to Galway Bay FM News, Eirgrid project co-ordinator Alan McHugh says they hope to apply for planning permission for the development in 20-15.