SEAI report(Aug '16) on Renewable Energy in Ireland 2015

KCross

Some interesting reading from SEAI review of Ireland's renewable energy for 2015.

http://seai.ie/Publications/Statistics_Publications/Renewable_Energy_in_Ireland/Renewable-Electricity-in-Ireland-2015.pdf


Some highlights:
- Renewables provides 25% of our energy
- 80% of the renewable energy is from wind
- Fig 5 on page 10 is an interesting one as I would have thought coal/oil were being used more.
Quote: "Renewable energy was the second largest source of electricity produced in 2015. Indeed, wind on its own, was the second largest share of electricity generated in 2015 at 22.8% (non-normalised) behind gas at 43% and ahead of coal at 16.9%."

- Solar PV Quote: "Solar technology is one of the technologies being considered in the context of the new support scheme for renewable electricity generation which will be available in 2017, as detailed in the 2015 Energy White Paper

- Lots of other facts/figures in their to digest.

The Solar PV quote doesnt give any indication of the future of a Feed in Tariff but hopefully 2017 will bring some positive news.

ABC101

I'm always puzzled over the % amount of renewable energy of the Irish grid. Different sources vary quite a bit. From an economist website the SEAI report is quoted as

According to SEAI data published last week, renewable power supplied 9% of Gross Final Energy Consumption in 2015 compared with a target of 16% for 2020.

Other reports from the media suggest far higher numbers, like 51%... which occurred on a few windy days back in December many years ago.

Does anybody know who has the definitive authoritative voice on what exactly is the real % figure of renewable energy supplied to the Irish national grid? Is it the SEAI or Eirgrid?

Journalists often misinterpret energy with electricity.