Wind Energy Ireland has worked with MullanGrid to track annual constraint levels in Ireland since 2016. See a summary of those maps above. Since 2016 constraint levels in the north-west, for example, have risen from 2.3 per cent to 11.4 per cent. In the west, it has risen from 0.3 per cent to 8.8 per […]
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Introduction Our electricity grid was designed to accommodate a small number of fossil-fuel generators around the country. In the 1920s when it was built, this design was sufficient. But now, with hundreds of wind and solar farms generating power, more than a million more people living in the state, and a society that is highly
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We are in a race to get more renewable power into our homes so that we can end our dependency on expensive imported fossil fuels. But we are not making the most of the renewable energy we have already built. More and more Irish wind farms are frequently forced to turn off because the country’s
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