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‘Power grid upgrade plans must be expanded’

More upgrades to existing strategy must be put in place if electricity sector is to reach carbon reduction targets, report says

Plans to double emergency power generation agreed by government

The move comes as Ireland’s power demand is projected to outstrip supply forecasts from this winter

Ireland is ‘firefighting’ energy crisis of own making, Statkraft boss says

Statkraft Ireland’s managing director Kevin O’Donovan says the national grid operator must move quickly to prevent high energy prices becoming ‘baked into’ the system

Government ‘deluded’ about 80% renewable energy by 2030

John Reilly, head of power generation at Bord na Móna, says there are too many bottlenecks in the system for the state’s targets to be met

Ireland lags in EU race to wean itself off gas

Europe’s €210 billion RePowerEU plan aims to cut use by over 60 per cent by 2030, while Gas Networks Ireland projects a 15 per cent rise in same period

Government scrambles to avoid further price hikes amid emergency power supply plans

The state will have to double the importation of planned emergency power generators in 2023 to prevent blackouts, but is looking for alternative ways to pay for it rather than passing on costs to homes and businesses

Interxion pauses $300m expansion plan due to data centre ban

Owner warns some companies are reconsidering plans to invest here in light of Eirgrid’s response to the severe energy crisis

Renewable energy prices rise by more than 30% after latest state support auction

A total of 1,948 megawatts were successful at this year’s RESS auction, which cleared at an average price of almost €100 per megawatt hour.

Green power cable developer warns of bottleneck in approval of clean energy projects

Boss of €500 million Greenlink Interconnector to Britain says state agencies urgently need help to process a huge number of renewables projects that are in the pipeline

State to double imported emergency power generators amid new supply fears

More than €300 million a year from winter 2023 is likely to be spent on the generators, as demand for power outstrips planned supply, largely due to the proliferation of data centres

Fingal County Council gives go-ahead to major Dublin data centre

The country’s energy regulator declined to make a submission to the council on a proposal by Energia to build a data centre in north Dublin which the company says will be carbon neutral and sustainably managed

Eirgrid seeks data centre space no more than one hour’s drive from Dublin 4

The operator of Ireland’s energy grid has previously implemented a moratorium on the building of new data centres in the Dublin region

Two amber alerts issued by system operator since Saturday

The latest warnings of tight power supplies on the electricity network came after several power plants went offline for maintenance and technical reasons

Renewable energy industry has ‘no confidence’ in government to deliver on targets

A letter sent by an industry body to Darragh O’Brien, the Minister for Housing, has outlined how renewable energy projects are waiting well over a year for planning decisions to be made

Hot air: Why the state’s energy targets are already under threat

There are increasing doubts that the government can meet its 2030 renewable energy targets, with many of the proposed solutions very unlikely to be viable in time to make any real short-term impact

Great Island power station to be out of action for four months

The 460MW gas-powered plant was switched off earlier this month after a turbine fault

Power cable upgrade could lead to traffic disruption ‘on a par with the Luas works’

Eirgrid tells meeting that Dublin must replace high-voltage 220kv underground cables that supply electricity to city

Intel set to build new €80 billion semiconductor mega-plant in east German city

Magdeburg beat competition from Dresden and Bavaria to secure the facility, which will create 10,000 new jobs

Proposal for gas-fired plant in north Dublin refused

Kilshane Energy Ltd applied to build the 293 megawatt station in December

ESB’s new gas power contracts triple in value

Whistleblower has accused semi-state of abusing market position and ‘lowballing’ offers in earlier auctions