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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 06/11/2026, 07:45:00
Physical cross-border flows
Electricity measured crossing every border in October 2026, valued at this zone's day-ahead price.
98.7% of the month's hours measured
| Border with | Out, MWh | at €/MWh | In, MWh | at €/MWh | Difference € |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 23,450 | 151.15 | 383,455 | 235.61 | −86,800,595 |
United Kingdom86,800,595 € for 360,005 MWh that stayed in the country works out at 241.11 € per megawatt-hour, in a month that averaged 202.79.
The first line is energy the country needed and got. The other two — 13,793,821 € together — come not from how much moved but from when: cheap hours to sell in, expensive hours to buy in. That is the price of a timing mismatch, not a loss.
Physical cross-border flows and commercial electricity trades measure different phenomena. ANRE data is shown as an independent official benchmark and should not be interpreted as an exact reconciliation.
Not an invoice. Cross-border electricity is not sold country to country: the markets are coupled and the physical flow is the outcome of a shared auction. These figures value the measured flow at this zone's own day-ahead price, so both directions can be compared on the same scale.
Flows are measured, quarter-hour by quarter-hour; hourly borders are spread across the four quarters they cover, so every megawatt-hour meets the price that was actually in force. Energy entering the country is not the same as energy consumed here — some of it passes through.
Who we sold energy to
Who we sold energy to when they needed it — last 30 days
data for the last 30 days · 30 days covered
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United Kingdom 22.11 GWh
What we sent our neighbours, per border. Energy summed from quarter-hour averages over the days actually covered by the archive. The average power is over the hours in which it flowed this way, not over every hour. A country can appear in both lists: with the same neighbour we import in some hours and export in others.
Who we bought energy from
Who sold us energy when we needed it — last 30 days
data for the last 30 days · 30 days covered
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United Kingdom 378.62 GWh
What our neighbours sent us, per border. Energy summed from quarter-hour averages over the days actually covered by the archive. The average power is over the hours in which it flowed this way, not over every hour. A country can appear in both lists: with the same neighbour we import in some hours and export in others.
Fuel mix today
Energy since midnight as published by EirGrid, in MWh — not instantaneous power.
96,742 MWh since midnight · as of 06/11/2026, 07:45:00
Source shares
Every source, with its share and the emission factor used in the carbon estimate.
live data · as of 06/11/2026, 07:45:00
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Unattributed 91% 3,428MW
- 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
- 445.9 g/kWh
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Onshore wind 9% 337MW
- Renewable
- yes
- Emission factor
- 11 g CO₂eq/kWh
- Adds to the national average
- 1.0 g/kWh
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Solar 0% 2MW
- Renewable
- yes
- Emission factor
- 45 g CO₂eq/kWh
- Adds to the national average
- 0.0 g/kWh
- Onshore wind337 MW
- Solar2 MW
The arrows and figures are measurements, as of 6 November at 07:45. 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 06/11/2026, 07:45:00
Ireland is 1 of 46, counting from the dearest. Average across zones: 261 EUR/MWh.
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1
IE
437EUR/MWh
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2
SE (SE4)
341EUR/MWh
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3
AL
340EUR/MWh
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3
XK
340EUR/MWh
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5
RS
338EUR/MWh
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6
DK (DK2)
337EUR/MWh
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7
CH
325EUR/MWh
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8
ME
316EUR/MWh
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9
MK
301EUR/MWh
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10
DK (DK1)
295EUR/MWh
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10
SE (SE3)
295EUR/MWh
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10
AT
295EUR/MWh
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10
BE
295EUR/MWh
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10
BG
295EUR/MWh
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10
CZ
295EUR/MWh
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10
DE and LU
295EUR/MWh
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10
FR
295EUR/MWh
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10
HR
295EUR/MWh
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10
HU
295EUR/MWh
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10
IT (CENTRE_NORTH)
295EUR/MWh
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10
IT (CENTRE_SOUTH)
295EUR/MWh
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10
IT (NORTH)
295EUR/MWh
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10
IT (SARDINIA)
295EUR/MWh
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10
IT (SOUTH)
295EUR/MWh
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10
LT
295EUR/MWh
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10
NL
295EUR/MWh
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10
PL
295EUR/MWh
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10
RO
295EUR/MWh
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10
SI
295EUR/MWh
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10
SK
295EUR/MWh
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31
PT
248EUR/MWh
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32
IT (CALABRIA)
245EUR/MWh
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32
IT (SICILY)
245EUR/MWh
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34
GR
233EUR/MWh
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35
NO (NO2)
223EUR/MWh
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36
EE
217EUR/MWh
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36
LV
217EUR/MWh
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36
FI
217EUR/MWh
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39
ES
211EUR/MWh
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40
NO (NO5)
210EUR/MWh
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41
NO (NO1)
205EUR/MWh
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42
NO (NO3)
102EUR/MWh
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43
TR
56EUR/MWh
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44
SE (SE2)
53EUR/MWh
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45
SE (SE1)
51EUR/MWh
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46
NO (NO4)
17EUR/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 06/11/2026, 06:50:00
-130,787 EUR was paid for 2,754.9 MWh of balancing energy, that is -47 EUR/MWh on average. The most expensive interval: 17:35, 16,651 EUR.
287 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 06/11/2026, 05:00:00
Over the last seven days consumption averaged 8,303 MW and ranged between 3,537 and 10,982 MW.
How it was measured: the median of the 02–05 hours over 8 Sunday mornings (6,659 MW) and over 32 working mornings, Tuesday to Friday (7,070 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 06/11/2026, 07:00:00 · 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 06/11/2026, 07:46:00 · 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 · 06/11/2026, 06:45:00 · 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.
CO₂ intensity today, as published by the operator
How many grams of CO₂ per kilowatt-hour generated in Ireland, quarter-hour by quarter-hour, as EirGrid publishes them — not our estimate from the mix.
day of the last publication · 06/11/2026, 07:30:00 · EirGrid
EirGrid computes the intensity from generation by fuel and each plant's emissions. Our mix-based estimate elsewhere on the site uses average factors; here the figure is the operator's.
SNSP today — non-synchronous generation, All-Island
The share of non-synchronous generation (wind, solar, imports over DC cables) in what the whole island consumes, every half hour. EirGrid publishes it only All-Island.
day of the last publication · 06/11/2026, 07:30:00 · EirGrid
Non-synchronous generation gives the system no inertia; the operator caps it in real time, and the percentage says how much of the island was running, at that moment, on wind, sun and cables.
Wind: forecast and actual
The solid line is what was produced; the dashed one, what EirGrid forecast for today, latest issue.
forecast issued 06/11/2026, 07:27:11 · ENTSO-E
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 06/11/2026, 07:00:00 · ENTSO-E
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 November 5, 2026 · SEMOpx
Each auction's most expensive interval: IDA1: 480.00 EUR/MWh at 19:00 · IDA2: 522.86 EUR/MWh at 17:30 · IDA3: 525.00 EUR/MWh at 18:00
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 · 06/11/2026, 07:45:00 · 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 06/11/2026, 07:45:00
United Kingdomimporting 1,043 MW| Unit | Lost | Period | |
|---|---|---|---|
| KilrootHard coal · Kilroot KGT4 | 42 MW | 13 Nov – 18 Nov | announced |
The source for this country does not publish this dataset. Nothing is estimated in its place.
Energy news
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Wind
Bord na Móna seeks permission for Ballydermot wind farm: 46 turbines and 322 MW on Offaly and Kildare bogs
Bord na Móna Powergen has lodged its application with An Coimisiún Pleanála for the Ballydermot wind farm, with 46 turbines and 322 MW, on former peatlands of the Bog of Allen. According to the Irish Independent, the project would offset about 146,857 tonnes of CO2 a year, and a decision is due on 28 October 2027.
6 Nov 2026
WindEnergia officially opens Crossmore wind farm in Clare: 25 MW and seven turbines, with the power sold to Microsoft5 Nov 2026
RenewablesSEAI Energy Awards 2026: Fivealley community, with 1,650 solar panels on 128 homes, honoured by the energy minister5 Nov 2026
Energy policyIreland hosts the 20th European SET Plan conference in Cork, focused on energy costs and clean technologies5 Nov 2026
| Source | Capacity (MW) | Of total |
|---|---|---|
| Natural gas | 4,265 | 43.4% |
| Onshore wind | 1,919 | 19.5% |
| Oil | 1,272 | 12.9% |
| Hard coal | 1,199 | 12.2% |
| Other sources | 647 | 6.6% |
| Pumped-storage hydro | 292 | 3.0% |
| Run-of-river hydro | 216 | 2.2% |
| Geothermal | 17 | 0.2% |
How the renewable share is computed
Σ(renewable sources, positive values only) / Σ(all sources, positive only).
Numerator: Onshore wind, Solar.
Denominator: 3,767 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 — 24 hours
96 points, PT5M 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.
By source
Each source has its own page, with history and context:
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