Ireland: Renewables

The Irish Government's Autumn 2026 Legislation Programme reveals an ambitious energy policy agenda spanning renewable heat obligations, private electricity wires, offshore grid financing, and district heating regulation. With multiple Bills progressing through the Oireachtas, businesses in the energy sector face significant compliance changes and new infrastructure opportunities that could reshape Ireland's electricity and gas markets.

As Ireland grapples with rising electricity demand from data centres and AI infrastructure while pursuing decarbonisation goals, Small Modular Reactors (SMRs) have emerged as a potential solution to provide reliable...

The European Commission has published its final Delegated Regulation establishing a common rating scheme for data centres, introducing electronic sustainability labels for facilities with at least 500 kW of IT power demand. The regulation incorporates significant changes from the draft version, particularly around nuclear energy consumption indicators, and will require data centre operators to understand complex conditionality requirements for energy procurement arrangements.

Ireland's electricity demand is surging due to data centres and digital infrastructure, yet nuclear energy remains legally prohibited despite growing European support and technological advances.

Ireland's system operators have published a roadmap for implementing hybrid co-located renewable energy sites with shared maximum export capacity, following regulatory approval in April 2024.

Ireland's Commission for Regulation of Utilities has published a groundbreaking decision allowing Maximum Export Capacity to be dynamically shared between multiple generation and storage technologies at a single...

The Government's January announcement of its Large Energy User Action Plan (LEAP) represents a step change in Ireland's approach to data centre delivery...

The European Commission approved a €3.1 billion Spanish scheme to support the production of electricity from new or substantially refurbished highly...

On 9 February 2026, the European Commission launched two public consultations on the preparation of the EU's post-2030 climate policy framework.