Consumption by large energy users also increased 20% via IrishTimesBiz
Total metered electricity consumption was 29,500 gigawatt hours in 2022, she said, an increase of 3.5 per cent on 2021 driven mostly by large users.
Overall, large energy users – a category that includes data centres as well as other energy intensive manufacturing businesses – represented 27 per cent of total consumption last year. This represents an increase of 20 per cent between 2021 and 2022 and by 116 per cent between 2015 and 2022, the CSO said.Amid concern about the growth of data centres, national grid operator EirGrid decided to stop connections for new data centres in 2020, a de facto moratorium on the building of new facilities that is yet to be lifted.
EirGrid has estimated that data centres could account for as much as 29 per cent of all electricity consumed in the Republic by 2028. Meanwhile, Dublin postal districts had the highest proportion of residential consumption in 2022 at 19 per cent followed by Cork , Dublin county , Galway and Kildare . “Counties with dwellings that use electricity as their main space heating fuel and the total number of meters present are underlying factors determining county residential demand,” Ms Shanahan said.
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