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A map of Irish wind farms, coloured and sized by their highest output so far this year.
Oweninny in Mayo recently become to first to exceed 150MW but Galway Wind Park is close with 142MW and there are a few more in the 100MW+ club in the south-west.
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Renewable generation last week met 43% of Irish electricity demand, just behind fossil fuels' 46%.
Tuesday was best for wind generation, equalling 56% of demand with a peak of ~4.5GW. Friday was best for solar: at its peak at noon, it was fulfilling ~4.2% of demand.
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Records and key takeaways from our 2023 annual review of the Irish grid:
🍃☀️ record wind & solar generation + peak output
🔋 peak battery discharge at 168MW
🔥 6 new fossil fuel units highlight grid constraints
🏡 🚘 heat & transport electrification urgently needed
Full report here: https://www.greencollective.io/post/2024-01-08-2023-review
Ireland set a new all-island wind record yesterday: 4629MW at 4pm on 6 December 2023. More details in the report below!
Keep in mind there is more than 6GW of installed wind capacity in Ireland. I will for sure be digging into plant-level generation during this record day, as data becomes available.
https://www.greencollective.io/post/2023-12-07-new-wind-record
Plotted pumped storage and batteries to cover all storage capacity in Ireland. Looks like batteries stopped discharging during peak since Sunday after a multi-day test?
*Note demand and storage on separate y-axes* (This is not ideal to me, but the patterns are the takeaway here!)
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Brian Bartholomew