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Wind power turned away in Ireland, 2024

1,266 GWh

EirGrid & SONI, Annual Renewable Energy Constraint and Curtailment Report 2024 (April 2025).

Calendar 2024Ireland · windReported · EirGrid C&C report 2024

Share of available wind turned away

10.1%

Same report. Across the whole island the share was higher.

Calendar 2024Ireland · windReported · EirGrid C&C report 2024

Compensation, modelled

≈ €55M

Range €28M–€84M; ≈ €30 per household. Not a published figure — please describe it as an Irish Grid estimate.

Calendar 2024Modelled · range

Gross mining revenue from that energy†

≈ €110M

Before costs, at today's price and network. Net of costs, under our central assumptions: ≈ -€58M.

† €75,800 · 4 October 2026Modelled · gross, before costsStored snapshot

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Irish Grid publishes independent evidence on Ireland's electricity grid: how much wind power is turned away, what it is likely to cost electricity customers, and options for using the surplus, including flexible demand. Reported figures come from EirGrid and SONI's annual Constraint and Curtailment reports; modelled figures are published with their assumptions. Irish Grid is an independent, non-partisan research and advocacy site. It has no connection to EirGrid or SONI.

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