This is energy production in the last 24 hours for the island of Ireland. It's a very windy day obviously, but it's interesting to see how much capacity is out there.

This is basically all from onshore wind, currently 5.6 GW. Offshore wind will be a game changer: the aim is to install another 5 GW by 2030, 20 GW by 2040 and 37 GW by 2050. By then we should easily exceed national demand, even on days with light winds. The plan would be to store and / or export the excess.

by wascallywabbit666

10 comments

  2. Just get the infrastructure built the likes of the north south interconnector is needed urgently

  3. Cool, looking at the eirgrid dashboard, at 4am we got to 96% wind. Thanks to the UK connections which makes this possible. The connection to France is being built now which will only help more.

    [https://www.smartgriddashboard.com/all/](https://www.smartgriddashboard.com/all/)

  6. >The plan would be to store and / or export the excess.

    We currently have 1.5GW of interconnect, and by the time the offshore wind is online, we will have another 2.25GW of it available for a total of 3.75GW of import/export capacity.

  10. Yeah but consumers still will pay the premium price as if it was fossil fuels because of our fucked up energy sector rules. 

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