{"id":672666,"date":"2026-11-02T13:00:13","date_gmt":"2026-11-02T13:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/672666\/"},"modified":"2026-11-02T13:00:13","modified_gmt":"2026-11-02T13:00:13","slug":"irelands-electricity-costs-the-highest-in-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/672666\/","title":{"rendered":"Ireland&#8217;s electricity costs the highest in Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ireland has the highest electricity costs in Europe partly due to the increase in data centres.<\/p>\n<p>Bonkers.ie says they consume around a quarter of the country&#8217;s entire electricity.<\/p>\n<p>The cost of electricity here is around 37 per cent above the EU average, according to the Irish Independent.<\/p>\n<p>Bonkers.ie spokesperson Darragh Cassidy says costs here are high globally too:<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ireland has the highest electricity costs in Europe partly due to the increase in data centres. Bonkers.ie says&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":672667,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[120017,246,61,60,82],"class_list":["post-672666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-electricity-costs","tag-environment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672666","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=672666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672666\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/672667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=672666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=672666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=672666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}