Dashboard
EnergyLens Dashboard
Ireland's 2030 Energy Dashboard
Tracking Ireland's progress on Climate Action Plan targets across electricity, heat, and transport. Updated when major reports are published.
4
Years
9
Months
16
Days
until 31 December 2030
Overall renewable electricity share
Climate Action Plan — national target
38.4% RE share (2025)Target: 80% by 2030
41.6 percentage points still to close
Generation capacity targets
Onshore wind
Climate Action Plan 2025
5,094 MW installedTarget: 9,000 MW by 2030
3,906 MW still needed
57% of target reached
Solar PV
Climate Action Plan 2025
2,100 MW installedTarget: 8,000 MW by 2030
5,900 MW still needed
26% of target reached
RESS auctions pipeline growing rapidly
Offshore wind
5 GW grid connected + 2 GW earmarked for hydrogen = 7 GW total
25 MW operationalTarget: 5,000 MW grid connected by 2030
~0% of target reached
ORESS 1 Phase 1 projects advancing
2030 target widely seen as unachievable at this pace
Residential buildings
Deep retrofits to BER B2 or higher
National Retrofit Plan — ESRI Review 2026
57,932 completed (end 2024)Target: 500,000 by 2030
11.5% of target reached
~75,000/year needed — over 3x the 2024 rate (21,817)
~334,000 projected by 2030 at current acceleration (ESRI)
Heat pumps in existing homes
Climate Action Plan 2025 — ESRI Review 2026
14,194 installed (end 2024)Target: 400,000 by 2030
3.5% of target reached
~51,400 projected by 2030 at current pace (ESRI)
40%+ of homeowners unlikely to undertake retrofit or switch to heat pump
District heating
Climate Action Plan 2025 — ESRI Review 2026
Early stage deploymentTarget: up to 2.7 TWh/year by 2030
2.7 TWh/year would serve ~10% of heating demand
187,000–314,000 homes required to meet target
~60,000 homes projected at current pace — 20–32% of target (ESRI)
Renewable heat
Renewable Heat Obligation
Due to become operational in 2026
Not yet operationalInitial obligation: 1.5%, rising to 3%
Fossil fuel suppliers must demonstrate a proportion of energy is renewable
Only policy not dependent on individual homeowner decisions
Biomethane
National Biomethane Strategy
~0.05 TWh producedTarget: 5.7 TWh by 2030
100+ AD plants needed across Ireland
<1% of target reached
Off-take certainty & RHO are the key enablers
Electric vehicles
Electric vehicles on the road
Climate Action Plan 2025
148,000 EVs (end 2024)Target: 945,000 by 2030
~797,000 more EVs needed in 5 years
Tripled since end of 2021
EPA models only 640,750 in its projections — target unlikely to be met
Data sources: Climate Action Plan 2025, SEAI, EirGrid, EPA Emissions Projections (May 2025), CSO, ESRI — A Review of Residential Heat Decarbonisation in Ireland (Lynch, Tovar & Farrell, 2026).
Updated by EnergyLens when major reports are published · See a figure that needs updating? hello@energylens.ie