For the third time in 2022 a new record in wind energy generation has been recorded from onshore wind in Northern Ireland.
On Saturday 5 February at 1.15pm the new record of 1059MW of wind was generated by onshore wind in Northern Ireland. This is an incredible 105% of the demand at the time!
SONI Ltd, the electricity transmission system operator for NI, reported that a new all-island wind generation record was set at the same time of 4584MW. This beat the existing all-island record of 4489MW set in February 20021.
Just after midnight on Sunday wind was supplying 96% of the demand across Ireland.
The Northern Ireland record has only been set for a few days before when 1043MW was recorded on 30 January. This meant 93% of the NI electricity demand was generated by onshore wind.
The first of the three records for NI was set on 6 January when 1037MW was generated by wind at 8.15am, making up 92% of the demand. This broke the previous record that had been held since March 2019.