Post by EirGrid Group

📣 Exciting news: A new milestone on the nation’s decarbonisation journey was reached on 21 March this year when, for the first time ever, the lowest daytime electricity demand level fell below the night-time valley. The key factor at play was almost certainly the very significant increase in the amount of rooftop solar panels installed on homes around the country 🏠 🔆 This isn’t the only recent good news for the energy transition. A combination of spring sunshine and a growth in utility-scale solar power connected to the grid helped contribute to new records being set. On April 25th, a new peak for grid-scale solar of 1GW (1,133MW) was reached ☀️ Head of System Operations at EirGrid, Diarmaid Gillespie says: “Utility-scale solar has tripled over the past three years and now exceeds 1GW, which is enough to power almost 500,000 customers,” Solar isn’t the only renewable power source making records. A new high for wind generation of 3,898MW was reached on Saturday 14 February at 5.50pm 💨 🍃 “We’ve had a great story with wind as part of the energy mix over the past two decades,” Gillespie points out. “There is now over 5GW of wind installed on the system. A huge proportion of the energy mix can be provided by wind. As we add more and more renewables, we will become less reliant on fossil fuels” Gillespie says. Read more from Diarmaid in this piece in the Irish Times: https://lnkd.in/d8zijY9t #RenewableEnergy #Decarbonisation #EnergyTransition #EirGrid