Pressure on electricity system to ease after two national grid alerts

The national grid partly blamed low wind speeds for tight electricity supplies on Wednesday, prompting a system alert for the second day running. Photograph: PAPressures on electricity supplies that prompted two national grid alerts are set to ease over coming days as power plants that have been out of action restart.

However, the State company said later on Wednesday that the pressures that prompted it to issue “system alerts” over two consecutive days were likely to ease as several power plants were due to come back on stream. Power plants capable of generating more than 2,000 mega watts, from a total of 6,300MW, were unable to supply the grid over the two days.

Ireland has enough wind farms to provide almost 5,000MW of power, close to peak demand, but they cannot supply electricity when the wind does not blow. On average, these plants can generate electricity only 30-40 per cent of the time.

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