Tawnaghmore is a 104 MW oil power station in Connaught, Ireland. It is operated by Endesa. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 78,089 homes (estimated). It ranks #18 of 64 Ireland power plants by installed capacity. Its measured emissions of 28,078 t CO₂/yr (Climate TRACE) are equivalent to about 6,545 cars driven for a year. In context, oil supplies about 3.0% 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 WRI1002840.
This facility's annual emissions are roughly equivalent to:
Equivalencies via US EPA Greenhouse Gas Equivalencies; emissions reported to Climate TRACE.
Installed capacity (MW), WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).
Operated by Endesa. All plants by this company →
This oil plant burns oil or diesel to drive turbines or reciprocating engines. It sits in a temperate oceanic climate (Köppen Cfb) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 54.2°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 30% 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: 68/100 — this site sits in the top third of the power plants we cover by heating degree-days.
In colder climates, uninsulated hot equipment (boilers, turbines, valves, steam lines) loses proportionally more heat to ambient air — exactly the loss Inzonex modular insulation is designed to cut.
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.
The #6 largest oil power plant of 6 in Ireland by capacity.
Ireland has 6 oil power plants in this dataset, together about 1,146 MW of capacity.
Coordinates 54.1934, -9.2206 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
