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The High Court has quashed the final decisions of the Commission for Regulation of Utilities (CRU) to exclude two electricity-generating undertakings from participating in a national grid Capacity Auction. The court found that the CRU and EirGrid, the Transmission System Operator, failed to exercise a required discretion and applied an incorrect standard in assessing the feasibility of the applicants' projects. The court directed that the applications be reconsidered by the CRU, emphasizing that the review should be broader than the previous "plainly wrong" standard and consider each case on its merits.
Capacity Auction, Commission for Regulation of Utilities (CRU), EirGrid, Transmission System Operator (TSO), High Court, judicial review, certiorari, feasibility assessment, discretionary grounds of rejection, "plainly wrong" standard, remittal, public interest, energy supply, Capacity Market Code (CMC), independent decision-making, expert judgment, procedural fairness, legal error.
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