'Perfect storm' straining country's power grid system

EirGrid said this week's system alerts were due to low wind, limited electricity imports, and forced outages at a number of generators causing 'tight margins'.

Ireland has had 13 system alerts on the power grid in the past two years, the same number as the entire decade previously — as a "perfect storm" is straining the system.

The State's power grid operator EirGrid has insisted there was no threat of blackouts as two system alerts — previously called amber alerts — were issued in the past two days, bringing the total to four in the past month alone.