Utility scale Zonne-PV in Ireland has already generated more electricity in the first seven months of 2025 than in 2024.
According to the latest data from Eirgrid of the State transmission system, Solar PV had supplied 753GWH of electricity by the end of July 2025, against the 659GWH registered for the entire 2024.
This is not the only record registered by Solar PV in the summer. There was a series of peak records for solar activities in the summer, with the highest level set at 798 MW on July 9 at 3 p.m. This represents an increase of 30 MW compared to the previous record, while Solar PV reached the 750 MW peak threshold in March, so that the new record was currently established.
Despite these new records for Zonne -PV, the technology still represents a small part of the electricity generation in the Irish grid. In August, 34.9% of all electricity came from renewable energy sources, of which Solar PV represented 4.8%, a monthly decrease in the 5.7% of the electricity generated in July.
Diarmaid Gillespie, director of system activities at Eirgrid, said: “Although the total percentage for solar energy remains relatively small compared to some other sources of generation, strong growth has had an evolution in the Ireland fuel mix in recent years.
While Solar PV continues to grow with new records to the generation, the technology has seen various financial support for renewable energy company NTR and Independent Power Producer (IPP) Power Capital Renewable Energy earlier this month.
NTR secured € 65 million (£ 56.6 million) in financing for a ready-made solar-plus storage project In County Louth. The storage system for solar and battery energy has a combined capacity of 211 MW.
The IPP, on the other hand, Work together with the European Private Equity company Omnes Capital and investment company Infranity, based in Paris To strengthen its growth in Ireland. Power Capital currently has 230 MW Operational Solar PV, with another 330 MW under construction and a 5GW pipeline of solar and BES projects that are taken into use at the end of the decade.
