Qualla: Ervia https://qualla.com/ervia en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:11 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Ervia https://qualla.com/ervia Ervia: Introduction https://qualla.com/ervia/ On 1 June 2024, a company with headquarters on Eglinton Street in Cork was quietly dissolved by an Act of the Oireachtas. Most Irish people knew the company by its old name, Bord Gais Eireann - the Gas Board of Ireland - and never quite caught up with the rebrand to Ervia in 2014. By the time of the dissolution it was a holding company without much left to hold: its retail gas brand sold to Centrica, its water arm spun out as Uisce Eireann, its wind business gone to Brookfield Renewable. What remained of Ervia's functions, assets and liabilities transferred wholesale to Gas Networks Ireland, the very subsidiary Ervia had once been created to hold. The corporate parent had been outlasted by its own child.

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/1/z/ervia-wp/gc1z-ervia-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Ervia: The Gas Board of Ireland https://qualla.com/ervia/ Bord Gais Eireann was set up by the Irish state in 1975 to consolidate a patchwork of failing private city gas companies. The oldest of those was in Dublin and reached back to 1844 - the Dublin Consumers Gas Company, chaired by Daniel O'Connell himself, the Liberator and Lord May...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/1/z/ervia-wp/gc1z-ervia-the-gas-board-of-ireland.mp3 0:06 2 full Ervia: Splitting the company https://qualla.com/ervia/ The European Union's Third Energy Package, adopted in the early 2000s, required vertically integrated utilities to separate their network operations from their retail arms. Bord Gais split itself in two: Bord Gais Networks - the pipes - and Bord Gais Energy Supply - the bills. On...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/1/z/ervia-wp/gc1z-ervia-splitting-the-company.mp3 0:06 3 full Ervia: Ervia, and the borrowed water https://qualla.com/ervia/ When the sale closed in June 2014 the Bord Gais name went with it to Centrica. The parent company was left without its trademark and needed a new one. They picked Ervia - intended to evoke connection, infrastructure, service - and most Irish customers never embraced it. Ervia bec...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/1/z/ervia-wp/gc1z-ervia-ervia-and-the-borrowed-water.mp3 0:06 4 full Ervia: The network it leaves behind https://qualla.com/ervia/ What remains is the network itself. Gas Networks Ireland owns over 14,600 kilometres of natural gas transmission and distribution pipeline running beneath every major Irish city and many smaller towns. Two interconnectors link the system to Scotland, with a spur that supplies the...

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