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HOW OFTEN DO you stop and think about Ireland’s energy use?
Although we all use energy every single day (most likely), chances are that it rarely crosses your mind, right?
Perhaps these facts will change all that… We’re going to break it all down for you by numbers.
Wind energy is projected to have provided 24% of Ireland’s electricity in 2015, compared to 18.2% last year.
The percentage that Ireland is dependent on energy imports. Which costs us…
That’s €15.6m a day Ireland spends on energy imports.
Wind energy use in Ireland in 2014 saved us €200m in fossil fuel imports.
The number of people around Ireland that now work in the wind energy sector.
19 December 2015 saw us set a new record high for wind energy generation in Ireland of 2037MW (megawatts) – that’s enough to power the equivalent of 1.3m Irish homes.
Wind Energy promotes the use of wind energy in Ireland and strives to help us become less reliant on energy imports by using clean and renewable energy produced domestically. Find out more at windenergy.ie. Check out the video below, highlighting Ireland’s wind and renewable energy resources while shedding light on the country’s foreign energy import dependency. Ireland has The Power To Power Ourselves.
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