Ireland has 334 power plants in this atlas, with 8,448 MW of reported capacity (reported for 107 of them). The largest listed plant is Moneypoint power station (915 MW, coal; current status unverified). By number of records the most common technologies are wind, gas and oil. Grid operators listed here include EirGrid. Electricity is regulated by CRU. Renewables supplied 46.5% of its electricity in 2024.
Reported capacity is the rated size of the listed installations, not electricity being produced now. Source dates and coverage differ, so newer facilities may be absent and historical records may remain.
Grid operators and electricity market in Ireland
Liberalised marketCompetitive generation and retail
Ireland and Northern Ireland share the Single Electricity Market, run by SEMO. Wind often supplies over a third of power, with gas making up most of the rest.
Ireland and Northern Ireland share one synchronous grid and a Single Electricity Market, connected to Great Britain by undersea cables.
What does “Liberalised market” mean?
Generators sell into a wholesale market, an independent operator runs the transmission grid, and households can choose their electricity supplier. Networks stay regulated monopolies because building parallel power lines makes no sense.
References reviewed 2026-09-29. Logos are each organisation’s own site icon, shown to identify it. Selected organisations, not an exhaustive list of licence holders.
Ireland occupies most of the island of Ireland, with an open central lowland surrounded by coastal uplands. Atlantic-facing landscapes and river estuaries frame many of its generation sites.
Capital
Dublin
Languages
Irish, English
Major cities
Dublin, Cork, Galway
Geographic reference: European Union country profile. Boundaries and names are for orientation; language listings are introductory, not exhaustive. Banner map: Natural Earth boundaries (public domain) with this atlas’s station records.
The source inventory contains 334 records for Ireland. Select a fuel in the map to explore where its stations are located, then open a record to inspect reported capacity and provenance.
Inventory coverage
334 source records. 0 reported operational in their source snapshot; this is not live status.
Browse 334 source records, ordered by reported capacity. Ownership and operating status describe the source snapshot; they may have changed. Missing information is shown explicitly.
