• Overview
• Move an existing pole or electricity line
• Housing Development - Business Park - new build
  • Overview
  • Construction Standards for Houses, Business & Industry
  • Connect a new multi-unit development
  • Substation/ Minipillar Construction
  • Business Parks Policy Documents
  • Construction Development Agreement
  • Cable Marker Warning Tape
• Single house or commercial unit - new build
• Move Meter Location
• Disconnect supply for building work
• Unmetered connections
• Increase/decrease supply (MIC)
• Regulatory Bodies

Business Parks Policy Documents

This page describes the process for connecting business parks to the electricity network.

Provision of electrical infrastructure to business parks

There are two steps when ESB Networks is making an offer (i.e. providing a quotation and terms) for the provision of electrical infrastructure to a business park. These are:

• Design phase
• Construction phase

Each of these is governed by a separate Letter of Agreement, which is sent by ESB Networks to the developer.

Design phase

A developer accepts the terms of the Letter of Agreement in respect of Design Work as follows:

• By having the 'Design Bond' executed by an appropriate financial institution and returning the executed bond to ESB Networks.
• By signing and returning the 'Acceptance of Offer Form' in respect of design work.

The developer is deemed to have accepted the terms of the Letter of Agreement only if both the executed Design Bond and the signed Acceptance of Offer are received by ESB Networks within three months of the letter being issued.

A developer accepts the terms of the Letter of Agreement in respect of Construction Work as follows:

• By payment of a capital contribution charge.
  • This charge only applies in cases where the least-cost technically acceptable solution is not accepted by you. In this case, you must pay any additional costs.
  • The capital contribution charge also covers additional costs to ESB Networks for sites within the ark which are at non-optimal locations.
• By having the 'Capacity Bond' executed by an appropriate financial institution and returning the executed bond to ESB Networks.
• Signing and returning the Acceptance of Offer Form in respect of Construction Works.

Construction phase

The Construction Phase begins when:

• ESB Networks receives the executed Capacity Bond.
• ESB Networks receives confirmation from its solicitors that the transfer of the substation's site title has been completed.

ESB Networks then notifies the financial institution to release the Design Bond by issuing a Design Certificate.

This Design Certificate certifies that the Design Phase has been completed and that the Construction Phase has commenced. The Design Certificate also authorises the release of the Design Bond.

ESB Networks authorises the issuing financial institution to release the Capacity Bond when:

1. The pre-existing spare capacity on the medium voltage (MV) network within the Business Park (as stated in the Letter of Agreement and the Capacity Bond), or 30% of the minimum capacity of the relevant HV station, whichever is the greater, has been contracted by signed Connection Agreements
   and
2. The new customers have been connected for not less than 6 months.
   A Capacity Certificate is issued to the financial institution authorising the release of the bond.