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Moneypoint Power Plant

Name: Moneypoint
Address: IE

Moneypoint Power Plant is a coal power plant in Ireland, with 855 MW of capacity, owned by ESB Group.

Facts

Every value links to its source, and to the source's own record where it has one. Licences and last-checked dates are per row.

Fact	Value	Source
Location	Ireland	JRC Open Power Plants Database (JRC-PPDB-OPEN) · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026 Wikidata · record · CC0 1.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Status	Operating (commissioned)	JRC Open Power Plants Database (JRC-PPDB-OPEN) · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026
Start year	1985	JRC Open Power Plants Database (JRC-PPDB-OPEN) · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026 Wikidata · record · CC0 1.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Owner	ESB Group	Wikidata · record · CC0 1.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Capacity	855 MW (sum of operating units, Moneypoint Unit 1 285 MW; Moneypoint Unit 2 285 MW; Moneypoint Unit 3 285 MW)	JRC Open Power Plants Database (JRC-PPDB-OPEN) · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026
Capacity	915 MW	Wikidata · record · CC0 1.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Units	3 units	JRC Open Power Plants Database (JRC-PPDB-OPEN) · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026
Technology	Hard coal (registered as Fossil Hard coal)	JRC Open Power Plants Database (JRC-PPDB-OPEN) · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026
Technology	Hard coal	Wikidata · record · CC0 1.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
EIC code	47W000000000166F	JRC Open Power Plants Database (JRC-PPDB-OPEN) · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026
Coordinates	52.6080, -9.4230	JRC Open Power Plants Database (JRC-PPDB-OPEN) · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026

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Also recorded as

2 sources record Moneypoint; this page joins their facts, each with its own source. Links to any of the records lead here. How records are matched.

Name in the source	Identifier	Source	Matched on
Moneypoint	asset:eic:47W000000000166F	JRC Open Power Plants Database (JRC-PPDB-OPEN)	—
Moneypoint power station	asset:wikidata:Q6899351	Wikidata	Same name, coordinates and capacity

How it compares

Moneypoint is the 3rd-largest of 35 power plants in Ireland by capacity; its 855 MW is 9.4% of the 9,143 MW we hold for Ireland. Ranks and totals cover the power plants in our data that report their capacity, not every one in existence. Power plants planned, permitted or under construction are ranked apart.

Within	Rank	Total	Share
Ireland	3rd of 35	9,143 MW	9.4%
All power plants in our data	559th of 12,230	1,691,896 MW	<0.1%

Owner and place

Other power plants in Ireland

Aghada985 MW
Tonn Nua900 MW
Huntstown744 MW
Tarbert652 MW
Great Island470 MW
Poolbeg463 MW
Whitegate435 MW
Dublin Bay405 MW

All 36 power plants in Ireland

Data on this page

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. DUKES 5.11: Power stations in the United Kingdom, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD), Open Government Licence v3.0.
Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration (Sep 2026). EIA-860 / 860M / 923, Public domain.
JRC Open Power Plants Database (JRC-PPDB-OPEN), European Commission, Joint Research Centre. JRC Open Power Plants Database (JRC-PPDB-OPEN), CC BY 4.0.
Bundesnetzagentur, Marktstammdatenregister. Marktstammdatenregister, DL-DE-BY-2.0.
Dutch power station owners' and operators' pages. Dutch power station owners' and operators' pages, Facts only, each linked to its page.
Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Planning Inspectorate: National Infrastructure Projects, Open Government Licence v3.0.
RVO SDE(+)(+) projecten in beheer and SDE viewer. RVO SDE(+)(+) projecten in beheer and SDE viewer, Free reuse, no attribution required.
Wikidata. Wikidata, CC0 1.0.