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The thermal power station at Poolbeg in Dublin - where staff costs run at €103,000 a head - consists of three aging individual units producing 490 megawatts of power in total.
Plenty of coverage of ESB salaries in the media recently - so it's paper talk rather than pub talk, even an average of 65k is hardly cheap, certainly most private sector workers would consider this a substantial amount of money.
Naturally the 65k figure doesn't factor in the full cost of funding ESB pensions.