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Live grid / Ireland
Live · IE(SEM) bidding zone
Ireland electricity today: carbon and price, hour by hour
Carbon intensity and the day-ahead price of electricity in Ireland, hour by hour for 48 hours, with the best four hours to run flexible compute. Refreshed every 10 minutes.
- Carbon intensity, latest hour
- 134 g CO2e/kWh
- Day-ahead price, latest hour
- 282.0 €/MWh
- Renewable share of generation
- 76 %
Snapshot of 24 Oct 2026, 00:49 CEST.
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About this market
Grid operator
EirGrid in Ireland and SONI in Northern Ireland.
Bidding zone
Ireland and Northern Ireland trade as one all-island Single Electricity Market (SEM).
Generation in 2025
Largest sources: gas 48.4%, wind 38.0%, solar 4.8% (Republic of Ireland only).
Data-centre rule
The regulator’s 12 December 2025 decision (CRU/2025/236) requires new data centres to bring on-site or local generation or storage matching their import capacity, and to meet at least 80% of annual demand with additional renewable generation in Ireland.
Other markets
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Notes
- Carbon intensity is estimated from each market’s generation by fuel. Forward hours follow the renewables forecast.
- Prices are day-ahead wholesale, not what a site pays.
- Ireland shows carbon only, with no forward hours.
- “Delayed” marks a series that missed its last refresh.
Sources: ENTSO-E Transparency Platform, Bundesnetzagentur (SMARD), NESO Carbon Intensity API and European Central Bank (exchange rates); data: Energy-Charts.info, Fraunhofer ISE.