Ireland closed the last TPP

The moneypoint TPP will remain in the reserve until 2029 – in case of severe need, it will work with fuel oil.

Ireland became the next European country, which stopped making electricity from coal. It was reported the day before Bloomberg.

It is indicated that the country’s last Coal Power Station (TPP) is moneypoint, in Claire class, officially stopped working after more than 40 years of operation. The station is controlled by the State Esb energy company.

“This is the end of the coal season in Ireland and the beginning of a cleaner energy in the future,” said ESB general director Peddie Gisee.

The moneypoint TPP will remain in the reserve until 2029 – in the event of a severe need, it will work with fuel oil under the leadership of the Eirgrid National Energy Operator. Meanwhile, the matter has been changed for the needs of energy transfer. Specifically, in 2022, the first synchronous compensator in Ireland began working there.

This device helps the network maintain motion and frequency, which is becoming more and more important due to the growth of the renewable energy. It is the lack of such stabilization, according to experts, which could cause a recent big -scale blackout in Spain.

The agency noted that in the same year Italy plans to stop two large stations, and Spanish coal power plants can be abolished or converted to gas.

Thanks to a huge -scale transition to changing energy sources, Europe is almost double the coal part in the energy balance, according to analysts from Ember. Even before 2013, coal, as the most dirty fossil fuel, ruled the continent’s energy.

Earlier this year, Finland closed the last TPP. Company energy Helen Ltd. He stopped the Coal Heat Station Salmisaari (Salmisaari) in Helsinki.

In the Russian Federation, they postponed the modernization of energy facilities due to lack of funding

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