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Grange Castle Echelon power station — Ireland

Gas power plant in Leinster, Ireland. Approximate location 53.3283, -6.4342.

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Grange Castle Echelon power station is a 120 MW gas power station in Leinster, Ireland. It ranks #25 of 76 Ireland power plants by installed capacity. Its annual emissions of 32,849 t CO₂/yr (EU ETS verified (EUTL 2023)) are equivalent to about 7.7k cars driven for a year. In context, gas supplies about 48.4% of Ireland's electricity; the national grid averages 257 gCO₂/kWh (48.1% low-carbon) (2025).

120MW installed capacity
32,849t CO₂ / yr (EU ETS verified (EUTL 2023))
2025Construction

Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id CT-2119.

Data status

Known data

FacilityGrange Castle Echelon power station Climate TRACE
CountryIreland · Leinster Climate TRACE
Coordinates53.3283, -6.4342 Climate TRACE
FuelGas Climate TRACE
MW installed capacity120 MW GEM wiki operating-unit table, summed from matched page, fetched 2026-07-05; operating plant capacity
OwnerEchelon Data Centres Ltd Climate TRACE
Commissioned2025 Climate TRACE
CO₂ emissions32,849 t CO₂·a⁻¹ measured · EU ETS verified (EUTL 2023)

Calculated from dataset

Capacity rank in country#25 / 76 calculated
Fuel-specific rank in country#19 / 24 calculated
Capacity vs country/fuel peers0.44× · 275 MW · n=24 calculated
Climate8.7°C · HDD 3,387 derived from coordinates
Environmental severityC4 · 28/100 derived from coordinates

Not available

TechnologyNot available not in dataset
GWh reported / yrNot available not in dataset

Known, modelled and calculated values are kept separate. Missing fields are shown as unavailable.

Data provenance

The capacity and/or fuel fields on this page include a source-backed provenance label from GEM, an official registry, Wikidata, OSM, or a cross-source match.

capacity: GEM wiki operating-unit table, summed from matched page, fetched 2026-07-05; fuel: Climate TRACE

In context: how this plant compares

At 120 MW, Grange Castle Echelon power station is below the median gas plant in Ireland (275 MW). Its current lifecycle status is “Construction” — so it is not yet, or no longer, generating at full output. Gas plants burn natural gas either in open-cycle turbines for fast peaking, or in combined-cycle units that recover exhaust heat in an HRSG to reach roughly 55–62% efficiency — the cleanest-burning fossil option.

Capacity comparison computed from the WRI Global Power Plant Database; fuel-type context is general engineering background.

32,849 t CO₂/yr — in everyday terms

This facility's annual emissions are roughly equivalent to:

7.7kpassenger cars driven for a year
4.3khomes' yearly energy use
547ktree seedlings grown 10 years to absorb it

Equivalencies via US EPA Greenhouse Gas Equivalencies; emissions per EU ETS verified (EUTL 2023) (measured for US EPA/EU ETS, modelled for Climate TRACE).

How it compares & nearby plants

The #19 largest gas power plant of 24 in Ireland by capacity.

Ireland has 24 gas power plants in this dataset, together about 7,234 MW of capacity.

Nearby power plants

Location

Coordinates 53.3283, -6.4342 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

Frequently asked questions

What type of power plant is Grange Castle Echelon power station?

Grange Castle Echelon power station is a 120 MW gas power plant in Leinster, Ireland, Construction 2025.

How much CO₂ does Grange Castle Echelon power station emit?

Grange Castle Echelon power station has measured emissions of about 32,849 tonnes of CO₂ per year (EU ETS verified (EUTL 2023)).

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