"Green" policies are destroying this country

Up to a point, building 10x or 100x doesn’t bypass the 30% capacity factor whatsoever

You can cover every single acre in windmills and still have extended random periods of nothing and next to nothing

Dublin has a metro as well doesn't it? I mean I know there was one being planned for 15 years ago? With the greens in power I imagine those plans have accelerated and are now nearly completed?

I would add solar and hydro to your list. Yes I am aware that we are not an overly sunny country but we are sunny enough to have solar viably in the mix.

It took 20 years for France to complete their nuclear power plant program and become capable of being completely independent of oil and gas. I'd imagine it would take much longer for us to do the same in Ireland due to our planning laws

Better than nothing is something I have often heard said about a clapped out car that will get you to where you need to be on the odd occassion. It`s not really a policy that i believe should be the basis of providing a states energy needs.

As to Michael O Leary I would not look on him as much of a template to base much of anything on when it comes to emissions. Michael will do what suits Micheal. This is the man that bought a taxi plate so he could use bus lanes and has deep enough pockets as head of Ryanair, by far Ireland`s largest emissions emitter, that he can well afford solar panels, heat pumps and insulation to his hearts content. Something that the same cannet be said for the ordinary Joe and Josephine Soap.

I can see where solar domestically has a place, but as a major contributor to overall electricity generation not so much. Our projected demand for 2050 is around 13GW. Presently wind is supplying around 2GW. The capacity factor of solar is poor here, you would be lucky to get 6% during our Winter when demand is at it`t highest. We currently have an installed capacity of less than 1.2 GW. At 6% that is 0.072 GW. For solar to fill the 11GW hole for 2050 we would need 153 times our present installed capacity. For a source that is only going to provide power during daylight hours that will have a decreasing capacity year on year, and would have to be replaced every 20 odd years it really isn`t practical a solution. That Turkey, which isn`t short on sunshine, or Egypt either where they have plenty of desert space to site them are both building nuclear plants should perhaps be an indicator as to all we need to know as regards solar.

The present unviable 2050 wind plan would leave us short by around 4GW of the 13GW we would require. I have nothing against using less electricity where practical, but reducing demand by one third I do not see as feasible. Especially when we have had the I.D.A for the last few years saying they are having problems selling Ireland to foreign companies, that are the life-blood of our economy, due to their concerns over our ability to supply the electricity they would require to operate here.

Ireland is done as far as new data centre investment. We'll get some scraps but the large players have already pivoted from here and are happily going to where the local governments actually have power and are willing to do business. Intel more than likely won't build again here once the new Fab is done. We'll keep the HQs of the MNC for now, until the EU and US figure out how to get that slice of the pie.

We had a good run of it but we need to be very careful with spending because in the next decade things could getting sticky.

I thought Bus Eireann had to tender for routes in the same way other companies could. It was breaking some competition law by only having BE routes. Thats when you seen all the private companies enter. The NTA or TII set the routes and companies could tender. Certain ones were deemed publicly important but would be loss making so the state stumped up the cost differences on those. I don't think bus companies decide routes and that's down to NTA/TII

It is called Upfront, and that guy was a MoL wannabe.

Advocating that Eamon Ryan break the law, because it hurts his profits.

And anyway, the cap was put in place long before the Greens were put into power.

DAA dropped the ball and created a scape goat in the Greens and Eamon Ryan, and the plebs drank the Kool-aid hook line and sinker.

Ah yes a few airlines CEOs crying their profits might be down so let’s put more planes in the sky.

The cap was put in place in 2007 due to the lack of road connectivity at the time. Nothing to do with air pollution really. Since then we’ve had the M50 upgrade so roads are no longer an issue. However, people are taking flights nowadays like they’re buses into town. Instead of blaming the Greens, more pressure should be put on the plane manufacturers to make their planes more eco-friendly.

From the IDA stating they are finding it difficult to attract firms to set up here due to the uncertainty over our electricity supply it will not be just data centres. Not that such firms will have a problem finding other countries more than willing to accomodate them. That will have a bearing on our future tax revenue so we would need to wise up and be very careful on getting ourselves into hock with a plan that will not supply us with what we will require or provide us with competative charges.

If I thought the greens had any foresight I would be tempted to believe that this present plan is nothing other than them attempting to get us so much in debt to their wishes that in a few years we could not even afford to look at alternatives.

And the worst thing is it's for commentary like this is what they live for. They love to see the carnage. It was never about environmentalism, it was about power and attention (much like the Catholic church was to christianity)

When was the last time Roderic O'Gorman actually gave two sh!ts about the environment? That man has other things on his mind.

Amazon joins Microsoft and Google and will go nuclear

Ireland is being left behind in the cloud / AI tech boom because of our backwards Green policies

I'd imagine post-election, without the greens, we'll see a flurry of activity in areas like electricity grid and the airport.

Ryan is in a state of non-cooperation, knowing that there are only a few days left so can only hope to stymie the system until that moment.

They have dropped the ball in so many areas, getting MN out the door and into construction phase could have been done with the right political will, as could getting the grid into shape to support more renewables and prioritising EV.

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green delusion.. reminds me of eamon saying its possible that the greens will win a seat on every council😂 and in reality they lost 26seats.

With how their party have been polling these past few years, im quite surprised he actually thinks the existing 12 will return let alone gaining new td's! lol. this election is going to be interesting. Not sure how do you gain new td's when your local election results dropped across several councils but okay… lets wait and see.

That's 1bn for near shore, shallow water plant and not including the grid infrastructure. It'll be a hell of a lot more than 100bn when you include all the deep water and floating stuff. It'll be another 1bn for the HVDC connection back onshore per 500MW once you get beyond 40km.

Then add in maintenance, insurance of the grid infrastructure and 37GW of curtailment for the electricity no-one wants to be paid out on top.