"Green" policies are destroying this country

I just hope that the government falls on emissions targets, will give people the chance to vote for net zero etc etc. The reality will be a shock to the bellends running with fractional votes making all these decisions impacting the country.

So how long will this take to build?

how long to get through planning application, ABP?

Who are the investors backing this?

What happens to the people living and working in these areas?

How much energy can it store?

Will it be up and running before this winter? If not well then it’s not going to help us with a gas shortage that the energy minister should have been planning for by pushing for CNG storage in tanks.

Grand.

So what other concrete plan do we have in place to replace wind when the wind doesn’t blow for a couple of consecutive weeks this winter?

France are largely nuclear so the taxpayer is picking up the large tab otherwise.

Hard to plan for subsidies in a non nuclear energy market, that is probably one of the few advantages of nuclear.

Ok, this makes direct comparisons between the cost of utilities across borders less straightforward. If i'm paying more for my electricity but less in tax, or if the government has decided to keep utilities high but subsidise vulnerable and low income citizens

Or there are different economic strategies, France might want lower domestic electricity but make industry pay the market cost, or like in Ireland, make the consumer pay a levy to subsidise infrastructure that is not deemed commercially viable but have a social and policy benefit.

The difference in electricity costs for consumers and industry varies a lot between different economies, but a huge element of these changes are policy based, rather than reflective of the costs of actually generating that electricity.

The greens can be summed up in 1 word hypocrites.

Anti nuclear but promoting the interconnect to France who guess what are nuclear

Anti fracking but no problem taking in gas from the UK where guess what they use fracked gas..

Really are a bunch of clowns when you think about it.

it's not about saving the world it's about making themselves feel relevant

The plan is to pick up the slack from the lack of wind by using gas or other fossil fuels.

Would you agree with that assumption dacor?

Now, the EU have asked us to reduce gas usage by 15%. We are one of the few countries in Europe (possibly the world- I haven’t checked this) that has no gas storage.

This means we could potentially have a shortage of gas, because we have no gas storage to get us over the period of time when the wind isn’t blowing.

Would you agree with that summary dacor?

This is a direct result of a lack of foresight and action on behalf of the energy minister.

Would you agree with that conclusion dacor?

It makes an absolute farce of greens pushing a rolling 12 month capacity of around 30% on-shore as if it meant had we 3 times as much wind turbine generation as the 12 month rolling generation from off shore turbines then we would have close to 100% of our needs.

Average capacity for wind, (or indeed solar or hydro), is meaningless. If you are going to get anywhere near that 100% then for a reliable supply it`s the number of turbines that will be required for the lowest days of generation, not the average.

We burned gas. Just as we have been doing this month. Just as we did in Winter 2021 and Spring 2022. As Darth Putin has shown to not do so would require 30 times the the number of wind turbines we presently have.

You were recently cheering on a one man and his dog protest in Galway to prevent the construction of a gas fired plant, so with you being anti gas what is your solution ?

That's just car ownership. As pointed out in the replies in that Reddit thread, "Distance traveled by car" is a more informative metric to use

"16,400 km/year for Ireland; around 7,700 km/year in Italy, and on average 11,300 km/year for the EU."

(https://www.odyssee-mure.eu/publications/efficiency-by-sector/transport/distance-travelled-by-car.html)

So not building the CNG tanks is because of the Ukraine conflict?

is that what your trying to say?

so its nothing to do with uncontrolled deforestation, particularly in Brazil and Indonesia, millions of open cooking fires that consume trillions of trees or kerosene or paraffin in Africa and Asia and S. America, unfiltered Chinese power stations that burn coal, lignite mining in Germany, millions of uncontrolled fires in Africa and Asia melting down scrap metal, vast quantities of water used to grow Khat in East Africa instead of food crops and opium in Afghanistan, scrap tyre fires in the US, unregulated scrapping of ships in Bangladesh and Pakistan, unregulated manufacture of firearms in Pakistan and the consequent damage to the local environment, unregulated dumping by millions of Indonesians, especially those who live on their own islands......yet you chose to blame the likes of me, as a child of the 70s, who has had no hand, act or part in any of the above, which is going on now???.