About the renewable electricity county dashboard
SEAI's thematic map provides a comparative visualisation of renewable electricity production in every county in Ireland.
Background
SEAI’s Renewable Electricity Production dashboard is a thematic map of the electricity production from wind, solar and hydro electricity generation within every county in the Republic of Ireland. It provides a Mega-Watt Hour (MWh) figure for renewable electricity generation for each county and month of the year. You can view monthly cumulative MWh production, with the ability to select multiple months at a time. Users can aggregate or disaggregate the total electricity production of each county by renewable sources.
The dashboard also provides the individual county level MWh production divided by county area in kilometres square (km2), and the MWh production multiplied by population density (population/km2). This approach intends to provide a normalised comparison across counties to account for their size and population distribution, which can impact on the spatial area available for development.
What you will find
The dashboard contains different layers depicting the level of renewable electricity generation in each county. This includes:
- Total county renewable electricity generation (MWh)
- Total county renewable electricity generation divided by county area (km2)
- Total county renewable electricity generation multiplied by population density (population/km2)
- Total county renewable electricity generation: Western counties (MWh)
- Total county renewable electricity generation: Eastern counties (MWh)
The thematic map and charts are underpinned by a variety of publicly available input data sources, such Single Electricity Market Operator (SEMO) data metered electricity generation data, ESB Networks data, planning authority datasets, and also renewable energy project information sourced directly from renewable energy project developers and operators. While metered generation is available for a sizeable proportion of renewable electricity generation facilities in operation from SEMO sources, there are a number of renewable electricity generation facilities that do not have metered electricity generation data readily accessible. We developed a methodology to estimate the output of wind and solar electricity generation facilities utilising metered generation data from neighbouring electricity generation facilities.