"Green" policies are destroying this country

The Gas industry has made you believe that wind can't work.

And they're right, but nobody is proposing a 100% wind powered grid.

Wind + storage + Solar + geothermal + Nuclear + Biomass + Hydroelectric + Hydrogen + Hydrogen storage (likely through Ammonia) all working across distributed generation systems in a European interconnected super-grid

once again, many of these issues were known long before this government, i.e. this isnt purely a greens problem, but a successive government problem, as advice leading up this, has been largely ignored.....

washing waste is a part of the recycling process, so......

multiples of billions, wont be done unless theres widescale eu agreements made, thankfully it looks like the ecb is seriously considering radical polices such as dual rates for this.....

If I spent two years in my job not just ignoring emails and memos but adding to the problem, when it became obvious the company was about to hit the wall, how do you think my excuse of "The person before me was ignoring emails and memos as well" would work out ?The buck would rightly stop with me.

Government is no different. Especially in this case where along with ignoring Eirgrid and CRU warnings the Minister went even further by adding to the problems.

Except that battery storage is much cheaper than gas peaker plants

And they're better at frequency regulation and have near instant response. Replacing 'peakers' with batteries would make the grid more efficient, cost less and allow increased use of renewable energy

This means we only need gas and coal for baseload until we can build more interconnectors and the offshore wind and solar infrastructure.

Every additional Solar or wind farm incrementally reduces our need for gas and coal. and when they're not needed for baseload at all, they'll be sitting dormant most of the time waiting for the times when they are needed. Ultimately they won't be needed at all, but when people say 'We'll need gas until 2050' that means in 2050 we'll be able to decommission the last gas power plant. Long before then, they will be needed only for backup and will be burning a tiny fraction of the gas we consume today.

In terms of cost, Offshore wind was recently auctioned off in the UK 9 times cheaper than the cost of producing electricity from gas

Ireland auctioned off our wind for about double the UK price but still way cheaper than the cost of producing energy from Gas at current gas prices.

The UK have a more mature offshore wind industry, the next round of Auctions, we should be able to command a better price as there won't be as much new infrastructure needed to support the industry

If you are going to borrow money for any project then the very minimum requirement would be how much you require to get the project completed. Until somebody can come up with an answer to that, it is pointless to talk about borrowing or interest rates.

We do not have to look far back in time to see what cheap borrowed money ends up costing.

The fossil fuel industry aren't looking at the current installed capacity. They are thinking decades ahead. They have assets worth trillions of Euros that need to be left in the ground to avoid catastrophic climate change, but they still want to extract as much of these as they can

before they become 'stranded assets'

Governments are planning to abandon fossil fuels, so they've turned their PR focus from buying off politicians, to making the public afraid and demonising renewables.

It's all about creating fear and doubt. It's the same strategy they've followed on their entire journey since the science showed that climate change required that we reduce CO2 emissions.

Climate change is happening faster than predicted and time is running out faster. You, unless you're a billionaire, won't be immune from the consequences

The shitstorm has biblically fell on Pakistan this week. Ireland faces a possible short term energy shortages. With planning, nobody will die.

The chance of these shortages causing blackouts is well under 50%

If energy costs cause human suffering in Ireland that's a policy decision by the government to not address that problem. Our budget surplus is almost 5 billion this year. No person in Ireland should go cold or hungry this year

That's bullsh1t. Where did you get this 'statistic' from?

How much does inaction cost?

A vomit emoji is not a source

Energy prices are where they are because we're allowing suppliers to make supernormal profits. The 14x price increase is only if the EU and Ireland does nothing to prevent it