Qualla: Aghada Power Station https://qualla.com/aghada-power-station en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:11 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Aghada Power Station https://qualla.com/aghada-power-station Aghada Power Station: Introduction https://qualla.com/aghada-power-station/ Gas was found under the seabed south of Kinsale in the 1970s, and the question was where to burn it. Aghada answered that question. A village on the quiet eastern shore of Cork Harbour, opposite the urban bustle of Cobh, suddenly hosted the country's newest power station - a piece of industrial architecture sized to consume an offshore gas field. The plant came online in 1980, fed by pipeline from the Kinsale Head field, and ran on that gas for forty years. In 2020 the Kinsale field finally ran dry. The station did not. It now draws gas from Ireland's national gas network and continues, four decades after it was first turned on, to keep a substantial share of the Republic's electricity flowing.

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/4/n/aghada-power-station-wp/gc4n-aghada-power-station-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Aghada Power Station: Why Aghada https://qualla.com/aghada-power-station/ The choice of site mattered. A gas-fired plant wants three things at once: cheap gas, lots of cooling water, and a connection to the national grid. Aghada has all three. The Kinsale Head pipeline made landfall on the south Cork coast and could be extended easily to the harbour ed...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/4/n/aghada-power-station-wp/gc4n-aghada-power-station-why-aghada.mp3 0:06 2 full Aghada Power Station: The 2010 Upgrade https://qualla.com/aghada-power-station/ The original Aghada station was a conventional steam turbine plus three open-cycle gas turbines: a fairly standard 1980s setup. In May 2010 the then-Minister for Foreign Affairs, Micheál Martin, cut the ribbon on something newer - a combined cycle gas turbine, or CCGT, that effec...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/4/n/aghada-power-station-wp/gc4n-aghada-power-station-the-2010-upgrade.mp3 0:06 3 full Aghada Power Station: Diesel as Backup, Gas as Future https://qualla.com/aghada-power-station/ Aghada still keeps diesel oil on site as an alternative fuel, a relic of the security-of-supply thinking that runs through European energy planning. The intention is not that the diesel turbines run often. It is that, if the gas supply is interrupted for any reason - geopolitical...

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