CRU Ireland — news (cru-ie)
| kind / priority | government / 2 |
| config | config/connectors/cru-ie.yaml |
| parser | news_article_v1 — see docs/PROJECT-EXTRACTION.md |
| schedule | daily (sitemap + news pages) |
| license / attribution | Public sector information (Commission for Regulation of Utilities, Ireland); facts and links only — "Commission for Regulation of Utilities (cru.ie)" |
| stored per item | text kept (keepText: true) |
What it is
News of the Irish energy regulator (CRU), the body that sets the grid-connection rules for Large Energy Users — i.e. data centres — in Ireland: New Electricity Connection Policy for Data Centres (proposed decision, 2025-02-18), Large Energy User connections policy consultation and workshops (2024), Enduring Connection Policy ECP-24, National Energy Demand Strategy. 135 news pages at /about-us/news/<slug>/, discovered from /sitemap.xml (11 487 URLs, filtered by include).
Quirks
- The news index is client-rendered (no anchors in the HTML) and there is no RSS → sitemap discovery. Every sitemap
lastmodcarries the same build timestamp, so it gives no freshness signal; change detection relies on content hashes. robots.txtdisallows/publications/(decision papers, PDFs) — excluded; only the news pages are fetched. The Irish-language mirror/ga/is excluded.- Pages are server-rendered; the date is a
<time>element ("15th January 2024") caught by the dateline fallback (text:dateline). - Most CRU news (customer protection, supplier exits, water) is not about data centres and yields nothing; the connection-policy items are the payload.
Verification
Verified live on 2026-09-12 with scripts/try-connector.ts (dry run, nothing persisted): sitemap 11 487 URLs → 135 news URLs discovered, 5 fetched at L1 (0 credits; the first five in sitemap order are customer-protection items → 0 events, 0 errors). --url on New Electricity Connection Policy for Data Centres → 1 news_event dated 2025-02-18 (power_infrastructure / power_agreement, project class GRID_CONNECTION, country IE), 0 errors.