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The Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland (SEAI) today published the Energy in Ireland 2025 report, providing definitive national data on energy supply, demand, and related emissions up to the end of 2024, with provisional estimates for 2025.
The report comes as Ireland nears the end of the first-ever national carbon budget and the midpoint of the crucial 2020 to 2030 decade, during which we are legally obliged to halve our emissions. Energy data from 1990–2024 shows we have made meaningful reductions in energy-related emissions for many years. But the same data highlights an urgent need to double-down on current efforts to tackle the scale of action required.
Since 2018, the baseline year for the national carbon budgets, total energy-related emissions have fallen by 16%, with electricity generation emissions decreasing by 32%. These reductions were achieved despite population growth of 10%, increased electricity demand of 18%, and a growing economy. This demonstrates that significant reductions are possible, when backed by strong policy, investment, and public participation working together.
However, Ireland’s energy-related emissions are currently only falling at an average of 2.7%, which is well short of the more than 5% pace needed to meet our 2030 climate commitments. Ireland urgently needs to do more of what is already working including increasing the roll-out of wind and solar PV generation, home energy upgrades, heat-pumps, and electric vehicles. As well as accelerating new approaches such as district heating networks and grid and storage infrastructure.
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