Moneypoint power station is a 915 MW coal power station in Munster, Ireland. It is operated by Electricity Supply Board. Based on reported annual generation of 4,715 GWh, it can supply roughly 1.3 million homes. It ranks #2 of 76 Ireland power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 1986, it is around 40 years old — long-established. Its annual emissions of 1,387,505 t CO₂/yr (EU ETS verified (EUTL 2023)) are equivalent to about 323k cars driven for a year. In context, coal supplies about 0.5% of Ireland's electricity; the national grid averages 257 gCO₂/kWh (48.1% low-carbon) (2025).
Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id WRI1002834.
Known, modelled and calculated values are kept separate. Missing fields are shown as unavailable.
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 tracker 2026 (location L100000102837); fuel: WRI source-record fuel
Technically it is described as Steam; subcritical. Coal plants burn pulverised coal to raise high-pressure steam for a turbine; they run as baseload but are the most carbon-intensive mainstream source and the first targeted for retirement or efficiency retrofits.
Capacity comparison computed from the WRI Global Power Plant Database; fuel-type context is general engineering background.
This facility's annual emissions are roughly equivalent to:
Equivalencies via US EPA Greenhouse Gas Equivalencies; emissions per EU ETS verified (EUTL 2023) (measured for US EPA/EU ETS, modelled for Climate TRACE).
Operated by Electricity Supply Board.
This coal plant burns coal to raise high-pressure steam that spins a turbine-generator. It sits in a temperate oceanic climate (Köppen Cfb) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 52.6°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.
Monthly mean temperature
Heating degree-days here run 14% above the median power plant in this dataset — a proxy for how much extra energy heated equipment must replace through its surfaces in winter.
Climate heat-demand index: 57/100 — this site sits in the mid third of the power plants we cover by heating degree-days.
Climate normals: WorldClim 2.1 (1970–2000 monthly normals, 10 arc-min, CC BY 4.0); zone: Köppen-Geiger world climate classification (Kottek et al. 2006, 0.5° grid). Degree-days & heat-demand index computed by PowerAtlas — a modelled heat-demand proxy, not a measured site figure.
For a plant’s outdoor hardware — heat-recovery steam generators (HRSG), expansion joints, valves, flanges and their insulation — the local climate sets how fast unprotected steel and coatings degrade. This site sits in a corrosive environment (estimated ISO 9223 class C4 — High), with humidity / wetness the leading environmental stress.
Higher environmental severity is exactly where protective removable insulation pays back most: a sheltered micro-climate slows corrosion, UV and thermal-cycling damage and extends outdoor hardware service life. This is an indicative site-climate context — not a condition assessment of any specific plant or operator.
Indicative estimate via the ISO 9223:2012 informative method (atmospheric corrosivity from temperature, time-of-wetness and airborne salinity), using WorldClim climate normals, the Köppen-Geiger class and coast distance. Indicative, not a measured corrosion rate.
Ireland has 1 coal power plant in this dataset, together about 915 MW of capacity.
Coordinates 52.6074, -9.4237 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
Moneypoint power station is a 915 MW source-record coal power plant in Munster, Ireland, commissioned in 1986.
Moneypoint power station generates about 4,715 GWh of electricity per year.
Its output is enough to supply roughly 1,347,200 homes.
Moneypoint power station is operated by Electricity Supply Board.
Moneypoint power station has measured emissions of about 1,387,505 tonnes of CO₂ per year (EU ETS verified (EUTL 2023)).
