"Green" policies are destroying this country

no, we re still heavily reliant on fossil fuels, and wholesale markets are based on gas prices, including renewables, so....

Once the Celtic interconnector comes online, we'll have 20-25% of our present grid demand able to be served by interconnection. Our energy growth will likely see that fall to 15-20% over the next few years. I'm not aware of any major interconnector in the pipeline to significantly increase beyond that.

If we did increase beyond that, then you run into exactly the same risk that you claim makes nuclear unworkable: that one power source tripping out will cause too significant a drop on the grid to be manageable.

Hauling electricity over long distances also incurs losses. Otherwise you'd have a few central super stations on every grid instead of how pretty much every grid is constructed with multiple, relatively smaller, generators dispersed throughout the grid and located nearest the points of use like cities and industrial zones.

And then there's the same fundamental question of cost - if the Spanish and French grids have to be able to carry our (present day) 7GW+ demand alongside their own, who pays for those grid reinforcement works? And who pays to reinforce our grid to carry the tens of MW worth of load of France and Spain in reverse? And that's before you've even installed the excess turbines required at either side.

yup, nuclear clearly needs to be seriously considered, but we cant get passed that one, so importing it is currently the only way.....

very true, we clearly need nuclear, but dont be surprised if it never happens!

...but if we rapidly increase off shore wind capacity, we might just escape black out problems, but dont be surprised if that also doesnt happen!

think its very unfair to completely blame seai, you can see the governments overall plans simply wont work, governments are going to have to step up to it, and borrow significantly, in order to achieve these goals, the overall aim of taxing and indebting the bollcoks out of citizens is never going to work, ever!

modern society is virtually completely dependent on the private car, moving more over to public transport simply wont work, unless other, radical polices are implemented along side the increase in public transport, such as a significant reduction in the working week etc, without a reduction in income, so....

also very unfair to completely blame the greens also, but we all know they live in la la land anyway....

this has been going on for years, if not decades, so, many governments....

hahaha, yea, thats it! ...and the other parties arent being influenced and advised by other entities such as the ipcc etc etc

...our political institutions are seriously struggling with this one, theyve no idea how to approach the bigger picture, they dont even see it, i wouldnt overly worry about it, there ll be a major panic in time when this is realised....

Absolutely agree with you. If an Air to Water Pump was free, there is no way I would take it. Crazy running costs, and unreliable to boot.

The other parties are first and foremost being influenced by the greens to take the extreme positions on every green policy or risk the greens pulling the whole shebang down,we have the grotesque situation of a party with less than 5% of first preferences wagging the dog.Get rid of them and we can only be the better for it.

sorry, but thats la la land stuff, again, our governments are bound by institutional agreements and laws, so it doesnt matter who goes in or out of government, thats the gig.....

Sure we are in La la land with the greens(Ryan et al)😂any how its how policies/changes are delivered, bring the people with you, not just the select few like the Greens do, any party in this country could make a better fist of it than the greens.

I was quoting his post.Below was my post.

The same SEAi who have made a hames of the retrofit scheme, the same SEAI who have only 20 approved companies to retrofit 500,000 homes in ten years, grow the hell up, the SEAI are not fit for purpose, they only look after the "Green Circle" but joe citizen gets ripped off.

https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-40990973.html