Daily civic briefing
Today at a glance
Fine-line signals from the latest monitor build. Sparklines begin once daily history accumulates.
Questions for Ireland’s energy transition
Small signals to read the monitor correctly.
Electricity now
What is Ireland generating now?
A compact public readout of system generation, renewable generation, thermal/other generation, interconnection and carbon intensity. Current electricity values are harvested from EirGrid Smart Grid Dashboard public pages where available, with spreadsheet fallback.
Daily interpretation
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Data quality
Mapped · computed · missingThis panel prevents false precision. It shows which values are directly mapped from the EirGrid workbook, which are calculated, and which still require another source.
Emerging demand pressure
What new electricity demand is arriving?
Data centres and transport electrification affect the transition differently. This panel separates measured data, forecast demand, and modelled EV demand so the dashboard does not pretend that every number is live-metered.
Current proxy layer · forecast, measured and modelled values are labelled separately.
Interpretation
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Capacity evidence
What renewable capacity is built and planned?
Official register evidence for connected, contracted and aggregate observed renewable capacity. These are capacity-register signals, not live generation values.
Connected, contracted and aggregate observed MW are different evidence bases; do not add them without qualification.
Renewable build-out tracker
Official grid and register evidence · conservative interpretation
Novel layer
Transition truth meter
The distinctive feature: each module compares present movement with the direction Ireland needs, then assigns exactly one fixed signal: on track, at risk, or off track. Descriptive readings are shown separately. No vibes, just explicit logic.
2030 renewable electricity trajectory
—Thermal/other explanation
Explains the Truth Meter · Thermal/other
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Daily market pressure
What did the energy system signal today?
Short-term market and system indicators. These are not retail tariffs and should not be read as what households pay.
System signals only · household prices are shown separately below.
Household pressure
What does energy cost at home?
Official household electricity and gas prices from SEAI. These are affordability indicators, not live supplier quotes.
Official SEAI household prices · updated semi-annually.
Spatial justice
Who hosts the renewable transition?
County-level renewable production can expose an Irish transition geography: where infrastructure is hosted, where production is concentrated, and where electricity demand is spatially uneven.
Official Tailte Éireann county geometry. Hosting scores remain an index scaffold pending deeper SEAI integration.
Ireland county hosting heatmap
Official county boundaries
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Hosting readout
Index scaffoldWhy this matters
A national transition target can hide local geography. A county hosting index asks a sharper question: which counties host renewable infrastructure, which counties mainly consume electricity, and where should benefit-sharing and planning conversations be more visible?
Transparent by design
Data pipeline and caveats
Version 0.1 uses local static JSON to prove the product. The intended production version harvests EirGrid, SEAI, CSO and Gas Networks Ireland data through GitHub Actions, normalises them to stable JSON, and publishes the result as a fast static site.
Source status console
Audit layerThis console shows which parts of the monitor are live-linked, fallback-based, scaffolded, or manually curated.
Planned sources
- EirGrid real-time system information and system reports
- SEAI energy statistics, prices and renewable electricity data
- CSO transport and household indicators
- Gas Networks Ireland demand and gas-system reporting
Publication logic
- GitHub Actions harvests and validates source data
- Static JSON is committed with timestamped metadata
- The browser reads only local files for speed and resilience
- Every status label has explicit threshold logic
Important caveat
Real-time electricity data are provisional and can omit small embedded generation. The site must always distinguish measured grid generation from the whole Irish energy system.