Imera Power
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Imera Power is an Irish Company and is a privately held company that pursues and develops international opportunities in the private power and gas markets. The company and its management team have extensive, successful experience permitting, designing, constructing and operating safe and innovative energy technologies and projects. The company is privately financed and privately held.

Imera Power is the promoter of an Irish Sea
Irish Sea
The Irish Sea separates the islands of Ireland and Great Britain. It is connected to the Celtic Sea in the south by St George's Channel, and to the Atlantic Ocean in the north by the North Channel. Anglesey is the largest island within the Irish Sea, followed by the Isle of Man...

 East West Interconnector
East West Interconnector
The East–West Interconnector is a high-voltage direct current submarine and subsoil power cable project, currently under construction, for connecting the UK and Irish electricity markets...

 project, an independent merchant electricity interconnector.

The Irish Sea Interconnection project would comprise a 500MW high-voltage direct current (HVDC) link between the electricity transmission systems in the Republic of Ireland and Wales. This merchant interconnector will provide open access to all electricity service providers in the market on an open transparent basis.

The interconnection between grids increases grid reliability and blackout avoidance. The Irish Sea Interconnector will also enhance local industries competitiveness and bring benefit to the consumer by creating competition in the electricity market and driving down electricity prices.

Imera has announced plans to build Europagrid
Europagrid
Europagrid is a commercial initiative that aims to create a North Sea electricity grid based on high-voltage direct current power transmission technology. The Europagrid would be based upon a core backbone infrastructure of interconnectors linking a number of European member states including, UK,...

, an electricity grid connecting multiple European nations and offshore wind farm projects.http://www.maritimejournal.com/archive101/2009/february/online_news/1285bn_for_eu_offshore_energy_grid

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