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| Screenshot from the EirGrid website. |
Historical
stats and real-time graphs of system demand and generation, fuel mix,
frequency of supply and interconnector imports and exports are available on the EirGrid website. At 3 pm
today, demand is 5.485 gigawatt (GW) and wind generation provides 21.8%
of that. Peak demand is forecast to occur at 6.30 pm today and is
expected to be 6.34 GW.
1 GW = 1000 MW (megawatt) or 1,000,000 kW. Think of 1 GW as the power used by one million, one bar electric fires.