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Press Kit: ESB Generation Operations

Key facts

ESB operates a mixed portfolio of generation using both renewable and fossil fuels to generate power.
The first ESB generation plant (in 1927) was a hydro station at Ardnacrusha. Hydro electric power is a good source of renewable electricity generation.
ESB generates hydro power from the Shannon, Lee, Liffey and Erne river systems.
The ESB group is one of the largest wind generators in Ireland, and ESB has been involved in development, construction and management of Irelands wind resources since the 1980s.
ESB's fleet of conventional power stations use gas, coal and oil to provide power to the Single Electricity Market for use across the country.
ESB's full power generation portfolio can produce in excess of 4,000 MWs of electricity.