Regulatory price control

We agree five year investment plans or price controls with the Utility Regulator.

These outline how much money we will invest in the network and how we will meet government renewable energy targets. These plans detail network upgrade and maintenance programmes as well as new build programmes.

Our current five year plan will complete in 2012 and we have submitted our future plan which will run from 2012 to 2017 to the Utility Regulator.

Find out more about NIE’s future investment plans [544kB PDF] 

Stakeholder workshops

The following information has been provided to stakeholders to explain our future investment plans:

• Connections - load related and large scale generation [pdf 124KB]
• Connections - small scale generation [pdf 438KB]
• Network investment [pdf 2,050KB]

Consultation responses

We have provided a number of responses to consultation papers issued by the Utility Regulator regarding the 2012-2017 price control. These can be downloaded below:

• Response to 'Northern Ireland Electricity transmission and distribution fifth price control (RP5) strategy paper [pdf 184KB]
• Response to 'Assessment of potential financing options for utility networks. Discussion paper.' [pdf 48KB]
• Response to 'Network price controls: proposal for a cross-utility approach to network price controls.' [pdf 80KB]