Last month’s heatwave helped to boost the amount of electricity coming from solar in July, according to EirGrid.<\/p>\n
Despite that, the proportion of Ireland’s electricity supply coming from renewable sources only rose slightly year-on-year.<\/p>\n
Provisional data from the operator and developer of the country’s electricity grid shows that grid-scale solar accounted for 9.4% of Ireland’s overall electricity mix last month.<\/p>\n
That compares to 8.2% in June and 5.7% in July 2025.<\/p>\n
The figure reflects power generated by commercial solar farms and would not include solar energy generated and sold back to the grid by residential customers. <\/p>\n
However despite the rise in solar supply, the overall proportion of electricity coming from renewables only increased marginally in the month – from 32% in July 2025 to 32.3% last month. <\/p>\n
That came as wind made up a smaller proportion of supply – falling from 24.1% in July of last year to 22.4% this July – while supply from ‘other renewables’ fell year-on-year, from 2.3% to 0.5%.<\/p>\n
Gas continued to represent the biggest contributor to the country’s electricity needs, accounting for more than 43% of supply in the month. Though that is down from around 51% last year.<\/p>\n
Nearly 24% of the country’s electricity needs were met by imports last month, compared to just over 15% in July 2025.<\/p>\n
According to EirGrid, overall electricity demand stood at 2,744 GWh in July, down slightly on the 2,734 GWh used in the same month a year earlier.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Last month’s heatwave helped to boost the amount of electricity coming from solar in July, according to EirGrid.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":589922,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[72,61,60],"class_list":["post-589921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=589921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589921\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/589922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=589921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=589921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=589921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}