Ireland
IrelandIE
2,471 MW produced
GB
Energy market
The price of electricity today
The day-ahead auction result, in Dublin time.
Grid snapshot
Demand, generation and balance, updated every minute.
live data · as of 13/09/2026, 00:15:00
The source for this country does not publish this dataset. Nothing is estimated in its place.
The source for this country does not publish this dataset. Nothing is estimated in its place.
Fuel mix today
Energy since midnight as published by EirGrid, in MWh — not instantaneous power.
85,511 MWh since midnight · as of 13/09/2026, 00:15:00
Source shares
Every source, with its share and the emission factor used in the carbon estimate.
live data · as of 13/09/2026, 00:15:00
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Unattributed 2,211MW 89.5%
details
- Renewable
- no — the operator publishes total generation and only some sources; this is the rest, not a source
- Emission factor
- 490 g CO₂eq/kWh · weak factor, the figure is fragile
- Adds to the national average
- 438.4 g/kWh
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Onshore wind 260MW 10.5%
details
- Renewable
- yes
- Emission factor
- 11 g CO₂eq/kWh
- Adds to the national average
- 1.2 g/kWh
The arrows and figures are measurements, as of 12 September at 23:15. The transmission grid is not shown: we do not have its routes for this country yet.
The price right now, across Europe
The interval in progress, live data from right now, in every bidding zone we have a price for.
live data · as of 13/09/2026, 00:15:00
Ireland is 1 of 38, counting from the dearest. Average across zones: 141 EUR/MWh.
- IE 223EUR/MWh
- IT (CALABRIA) 220EUR/MWh
- IT (CENTRE_NORTH) 220EUR/MWh
- IT (CENTRE_SOUTH) 220EUR/MWh
- IT (SARDINIA) 220EUR/MWh
- IT (SICILY) 220EUR/MWh
- IT (SOUTH) 220EUR/MWh
- IT (NORTH) 218EUR/MWh
- PT 195EUR/MWh
- ES 191EUR/MWh
- AL 169EUR/MWh
- XK 169EUR/MWh
- AT 166EUR/MWh
- BE 166EUR/MWh
- BG 166EUR/MWh
- CZ 166EUR/MWh
- DK (DK1) 166EUR/MWh
- FR 166EUR/MWh
- LT 166EUR/MWh
- LV 166EUR/MWh
- SI 166EUR/MWh
- DK (DK2) 166EUR/MWh
- CH 165EUR/MWh
- NO (NO2) 159EUR/MWh
- PL 154EUR/MWh
- ME 149EUR/MWh
- NO (NO5) 141EUR/MWh
- NO (NO1) 133EUR/MWh
- RS 130EUR/MWh
- NO (NO3) 85EUR/MWh
- TR 58EUR/MWh
- EE 27EUR/MWh
- SE (SE4) 9EUR/MWh
- SE (SE3) 7EUR/MWh
- SE (SE2) 5EUR/MWh
- FI 4EUR/MWh
- SE (SE1) 3EUR/MWh
- NO (NO4) -1EUR/MWh
Wholesale prices for the interval covering this moment, bidding zone by bidding zone — countries with several zones appear once per zone, with its code in brackets. The average is arithmetic across zones, not weighted by demand: a small zone counts as much as a large one. The figures exclude network tariffs, excise duty and VAT.
What balancing cost, in the last 24 hours
Generation and consumption never match perfectly. The operator covers the difference through the balancing market, and that energy has a price of its own. The bars show the cost of balancing in each 5-minute interval.
data for the last 24 h · up to 12/09/2026, 23:35:00
586,068 EUR was paid for 5,714.6 MWh of balancing energy, that is 103 EUR/MWh on average. The most expensive interval: 21:10, 15,216 EUR.
288 of 288 intervals have a published price. Prices are those published by SEMO every five minutes (Imbalance Price Report, BM-025); the thirty-minute settlement price may differ.
Positive imbalance = the system had energy to spare (surplus); negative = it was short (deficit). The cost is the imbalance price times the volume; in surplus the money flows the other way, so the bar is negative. A negative price is real: then whoever had spare energy paid to get rid of it.
Source: SEMO, Imbalance Price Report (Imbalance Pricing Period) — the imbalance price and the net imbalance volume for each five-minute interval.
Who consumes: the base, the work rhythm, the day
An estimate from the shape of the consumption curve, not a measurement by customer category — that is not published in real time. Three parts: what never stops, what runs in shifts on working days, what switches on during the day.
archive up to 12/09/2026, 22:00:00
Over the last seven days consumption averaged 3,948 MW and ranged between 3,233 and 4,627 MW.
How it was measured: the median of the 02–05 hours over 8 Sunday mornings (3,241 MW) and over 28 working mornings, Tuesday to Friday (3,372 MW), across the last 8 weeks; the average over the last seven days. The parts are cut from one another in order and add up exactly to the average.
The parts are shapes of the curve, not customer categories: the base holds every household's fridge as well as a plant that never stops; the day holds single-shift factories too. “Industrial” and “household” would be words these data cannot defend.
The operator's consumption forecast
How much the country is expected to consume, hour by hour, according to the forecast the transmission operator publishes for today and tomorrow. The line is the forecast; the bars, consumption measured so far.
forecast issued 13/09/2026, 00:00:00 · EirGrid
The forecast is the transmission operator's, published on its own platform — not a model of ours. It is revised during the day; for each hour the latest issue is shown. The running hour, in the bars, only shows what has accumulated so far.
Ireland, in detail
What EirGrid and SEMO publish and no other country shows: grid frequency minute by minute, the operator's own carbon figures, the share of non-synchronous generation, and the wind and solar forecast next to what was actually produced.
Grid frequency, last hour
The frequency of the island's synchronous system (Ireland and Northern Ireland), minute by minute: the minute's average and the band between its minimum and maximum. The target is 50 Hz.
last published hour · up to 13/09/2026, 00:16:00 · EirGrid
EirGrid publishes samples every five seconds; we reduce them to minutes, with their average, minimum and maximum. The deviation is written in millihertz from 50 Hz.
System margin, today
How much is available in the plants against how much is being consumed, every five minutes, from SEMO's balancing market report. The margin is the difference; the reserves and the backup price come from the same report.
day of the last publication · 12/09/2026, 23:30:00 · SEMO
Source: SEMO, Imbalance Price Report (BM-025), every five minutes — “TotalUnitAvailability”, “ShortTermReserveQuantity”, “OperatingReserveRequirement”, “MarketBackupPrice”. Availability is the capacity units declare available, not generation; demand is EirGrid's quarter-hourly figure, taken at the nearest moment before the latest availability.
Wind: forecast and actual
The solid line is what was produced; the dashed one, what EirGrid forecast for today, latest issue.
forecast issued 13/09/2026, 00:00:00 · EirGrid
The forecast is the operator's, revised during the day; the latest issue is shown for each quarter-hour. The difference is not a grade for the forecast: the wind changes, and that is exactly why the operator revises it.
Solar: forecast and actual
The solid line is what was produced; the dashed one, what EirGrid forecast for today, latest issue.
forecast issued 13/09/2026, 00:00:00 · EirGrid
The forecast is the operator's, revised during the day; the latest issue is shown for each quarter-hour. The difference is not a grade for the forecast: the wind changes, and that is exactly why the operator revises it.
The intraday auctions, against the day-ahead price
The SEM market holds three intraday auctions after the day-ahead one: IDA1 the evening before, IDA2 in the morning, IDA3 at midday. Each re-corrects the price for the hours that remain.
delivery day September 11, 2026 · SEMOpx
Each auction's most expensive interval: IDA1: 409.76 EUR/MWh at 09:00 · IDA2: 294.31 EUR/MWh at 18:00 · IDA3: 299.02 EUR/MWh at 18:30
The difference against day-ahead is computed over the SHARED hours, not over whole averages: IDA3 covers only the evening, and its average next to the day's average would only have said that evenings are expensive. Intraday results are published late — verified: the auctions of 8 and 9 September 2026 appeared only in the night of the 10th — so the day shown is a finished one. The prices are the Republic's market (ROI); Northern Ireland has its own prices in the same document.
Northern Ireland, today
The island's other half: its own demand and generation, hour by hour, plus the Moyle cable to Scotland. The operator is SONI; the dashboard is shared with EirGrid.
day of the last publication · 13/09/2026, 00:15:00 · EirGrid
Northern Ireland has no country code of its own (it is GB-NIR) and shares the SEM bidding zone with Ireland, so the price is common and is not counted twice. The gap between demand and own generation is covered from the Republic and through Moyle; it is not a country's “import” but the balance of half an island. SNSP and frequency are not published separately for it: the system is synchronous across the whole island.
What the data centres consume
In Ireland, other people's computers are a quarter of the country's electricity. The official statistics count them separately, quarter by quarter: the coloured part is the data centres, the rest is everyone else.
published 2026-07-07 · Central Statistics Office, Ireland
“Metered consumption” means what passes through meters, not the system's generation: energy consumed on site, behind the meter, is not included. The figure is quarterly and appears about six months late, so it does not compare with the live consumption elsewhere on this page.
Live flows on interconnector lines
The flow measured right now on each physical border line, from the operational feed.
live data · as of 13/09/2026, 00:15:00
United Kingdomimporting 1,043 MW622 MW out now
| Unit | Lost | Period | |
|---|---|---|---|
| CoolkeeraghNatural gas | 414 MW | 16 Aug – 29 Sept | forced |
| Tawnaghmore ProductionOil | 52 MW | 27 Jun – 26 Sept | forced |
| Tawnaghmore ProductionOil · Tawnaghmore Unit 3 | 52 MW | 27 Jun – 26 Sept | forced |
| Tawnaghmore ProductionOil · Tawnaghmore Unit 1 | 52 MW | 27 Jun – 26 Sept | forced |
| Tawnaghmore ProductionOil | 52 MW | 27 Jun – 26 Sept | forced |
The source for this country does not publish this dataset. Nothing is estimated in its place.
The source for this country does not publish this dataset. Nothing is estimated in its place.
| Source | Capacity (MW) | Of total |
|---|---|---|
| Natural gas | 5,814 | 45.7% |
| Onshore wind | 3,000+16 | 23.6% |
| Oil | 1,588 | 12.5% |
| Hard coal | 1,369 | 10.8% |
| Other sources | 941−7 | 7.4% |
How the renewable share is computed
Σ(renewable sources, positive values only) / Σ(all sources, positive only).
Numerator: Onshore wind, Solar.
Denominator: 2,471 MW.
Pumped-storage hydro and waste are not counted as renewable — the first would double-count energy, the second is partly fossil and its biogenic fraction cannot honestly be separated.
Consumption — 30 days
185 points, PT60M resolution. Long ranges are served from precomputed aggregates — a one-year chart from per-minute data would push hundreds of thousands of points into the browser for nothing. Our archive starts at 2015-01-01 00:00 UTC.
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