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Wayleave for electricity cable through land

  • 27-09-2017 7:22pm
    #1
    embraer170
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,451 ✭✭✭


    A solar farm development company has approached me wanting to run an underground cable down through the middle of one of our fields. The field is presently forestry and it should apparently not significantly affect the trees.

    How much should I be asking for this? I am not sure they have too many other easy route options.


Comments

  • #2
    nhg
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,089 ✭✭✭nhg


    Get good Legal advise before you agree to anything...

    It could totally de-value the field especially if it's down through the centre of the field. Find out what restrictions will be involved and what distance to either side of this cable will the restrictions apply. Check out with regard to ploughing, re-planting, change of use in this area etc....

    There were overhead cables running through a site beside us which would have been an issue for anyone planning on building on this site, the Esb have now buried these cables to one side of the site down along a ditch & from memory nothing can be build within 4' of this cable. This was all signed through a solicitor & no money changed hands but at least now there are no cables running overhead through the middle of this site.


  • #3
    Water John
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,808 ✭✭✭✭Water John


    Why can't it be buried around the fence? Without seeing the field drawing hard to comment. Any company should be flexible to do this, if practical.
    Underground it won't have a major effect. See gas line near here and planning given for a house just alongside it.

    Your main problem is in giving them an option on the site, there is every likelyhood a lot of these projects will never being built.

    To give an idea, for wind farm would be about €3K per pole. Pole would be about every 80 metres.


  • #4
    jimmycrackcorm
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    nhg wrote:
    It could totally de-value the field especially if it's down through the centre of the field. Find out what restrictions will be involved and what distance to either side of this cable will the restrictions apply. Check out with regard to ploughing, re-planting, change of use in this area etc....

    I don't know how it can devalue the field when you're grown forestry but if get a choicest clause included to opt out in the event of a sale.


  • #5
    embraer170
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,451 ✭✭✭embraer170


    Thanks everyone for your help.

    They are offering about €3k in total for the cable. Some of our concerns would include forestry damage and trees needing to be felled as then roots mature, where €3k does not seem like much to compensate.

    We have already had enough problems with the many ESB cables running over the lands.


  • #6
    Water John
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,808 ✭✭✭✭Water John


    €3K is small money in any scheme of things. The margin on solar, if they ever go ahead is low, but if they are building a 5Mw on 25 acres, which seems the standard, then the investment is of the order of €6M.

    It depends on various things. Are you the only land, or are their a no of others?
    Personally, the €3K would look like, hello money, that is for disruption to you, not the wayleave.


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