ESB keeping power plant open beyond scheduled closure as a backup to strained electricity system
The Moneypoint power plant on the Shannon Estuary is due to switch to heavy fuel oil. Photograph: Liam Burke/Press 22’s Moneypoint power plant could continue to burn coal after the end of 2025, when the State company is due to switch the generators there to heavy fuel oil, regulators say.
When the deal was announced last month, ESB said it was possible to run Moneypoint’s generators on heavy fuel oil. A failure to build proposed electricity generators aggravated the problem, forcing the department to seek emergency planning permission for temporary plants, two of them in Dublin. Partners in the project intend ultimately using it to store green hydrogen, which could potentially be used in transport and industry.
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