"Green" policies are destroying this country

Right - but nothing was put in place beforehand in the event planning was refused? Did no-one think that maybe planning would be refused?

These plants are getting to the point where they can't be relied on, their efficiency is ~20-30% and they'll need major overhaul if they are to continue operating indefinitely. We should have been lining up their replacements 5 years ago.

These aren't expected to be completed and in-place until 2024, some are still at planning, some are peaker plants as opposed to baseload.

In total, they will contribute just over 1.1GW which means we're still facing a net loss to overall generation once Tarbert and Moneypoint are factored out of the equation and don't even come close to meeting future energy demands.

A 500MW interconnector will only give 500MW if there's 500MW on the far side to be given.

If we can run the interconnector at 500MW import at all times, then it combined with the above new gas plants will just cover the loss in generation capacity from Moneypoint and only leave us back where we're at today.

As above re: availability for import being there. Due to come online 2026/2027.

If we can run the 700MW interconnector at maximum import during winter it will cover the vast majority of the demand from the 600k heat-pumps proposed by 2030.

Useful for curbing fossil use in daytime summer hours, but generally useless for our absolute peak demand periods, which are typically the cold, dark winter nights.

Well I sure hope the key to securing our energy future is in the "and so on" category because the above arrangements will still see us set to have a net deficit off dispatchable generation capacity versus demand by 2030.

You`re still not trying to dress that Ryan fiasco on turf up as some kind of green victory are you ?

I have been around a while and it`s a long time since I saw as much turf cut and saved as I have this year. This is a small country, anyone that wants to buy turf will have no problem finding a seller, especially with the current energy crisis and there not a thing the greens can do about it.

All Ryan has achieved, other than make a complete fool of himself with his 500+ and 500- communities, is guaranteeing that there will no longer be any carbon tax collected from turf sales.

Were you not the poster who was against the state investing in anymore gas infrastructure? Maybe it was akrasia?

Eamon Ryan has succeeded singlehandedly in tripling the amount of turf cut this year on a conservative estimate yet the greens on here somehow think they have succeeded in making the environment cleaner. laughable stuff.

Not the same level of anger at them as in 2007 and retaining up to all their seats would not be surprising. It is very much their time.

The next recession could be the technical definition of two quarters of -0.1% growth but it won't be as extreme as what we've seen this century. The next election is probably at least two years away.

All of this may be true but who's going to try to pin any of that on them? The Opposition have no environmental policies at all.

SF have absolutely no environmental policies whatsoever and they only care about carbon taxes and they'd be making a target of themselves. Most polls have The Greens with enough support to retain some of their seats so we'll see. I think they may get anywhere from 4-12 seats.

All anybody needs to say is the Green Coalition Government with a Green Minister for Energy allowed the blackouts to happen.

All SF need to say is we would have approved the back up generators much earlier or we wouldn't have closed power stations without a secure alternative.

If blackouts come they'll be as an indirect result of the Russian misadventure. TBH no solution can address that with a few months notice. SF will be best served by not pretending to understand power generation or the environment, as they would get absolutely roasted by any halfway competent interviewer. Their solid ground is housing and anything health related.

We don't get gas from Russia but potential shortages elsewhere might affect us. The Germans might have the biggest problem in this regard.