The risk to the national electricity grid of power cuts this winter is less than last year, according to the grid's operator EirGrid.
However, in its Winter Outlook published today, EirGrid said there is a still a"reasonable probability" that supply won’t meet demand, but it hopes to avoid this by managing power use by data centres and the introduction of emergency generation.
The grid operator said the introduction of agreement on mandatory reduction in power usage by large energy users in times of emergency and the gradual introduction of emergency gas and diesel generating capacity has reduced the system’s exposure. However, this metric was four hours last winter and customers did not, in fact, end up losing any power due to capacity problems on the grid.EirGrid said there is no risk of a system-wide blackout this winter due to insufficient generation capacity.
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