Energy infrastructure

It's a complete straw man. If your company makes a bad business decision, it's not the fault of the government. Very simple. The German government made enough bad decisions about energy infrastructure, but your company's failings are their own.

That makes no sense. It's like me complaining that I'm not making enough profit as I used to because of government policies. Your company - in your own words - made commercial agreements with its suppliers and its employees which are at odds with each other. This is absolutely not the government's fault.

I was bored :)

Lower reservoir location in Clogerane, Kerry. Good luck getting planning permission to flood here.

https://maps.app.goo.gl/DsMhA543d7ZukHAf8

But you'll have more luck there than flooding the good people of Kilgarvan in South Kirry. That mapping algorithm has no idea the people it is dealing with :)

https://maps.app.goo.gl/rYk1xdaQ5T4B7mqQA

This is the R584, or at least it was before it was turned into a lower reservoir. See that sign? It's for Gougane Barra, half a km up the road. Not going to happen.

https://maps.app.goo.gl/zXzLDJ2oPgBzoW2U8

This morning at 9:30 solar in the UK met 3.2% of demand according to their dashboard. I didn't expect it to be so high, curious to see what it will get to by midday. (The UK have a very nice dashboard)

https://www.energydashboard.co.uk/live

What does your first paragraph mean? It seems to be an unrelated topic from my post? Did your employer make some bad business decisions or not? And is that someone else's fault or not?

Also, here in Cork it's been sunny the last two days with a light breeze. Really lovely weather. My German's a little rusty but according to the helpful language lessons in previous posts, I'm drawing the - perhaps incorrect - conclusion that it's not Dunkelflaute here. Again though, not sure what relevance that has to my post which you quoted.

Maybe you didn't mean to quote me?

If you want to expand on the energy independence topic, where does France gets the Uranium from for the nuclear that's providing 63% of its electricity at the moment?

https://www.rte-france.com/en/eco2mix/power-generation-energy-source#

And Belgium, Finland, and all the other European countries heavily reliant on nuclear power?

Do German gas/oil fields keep its generators/transport going?

I would be interested in seeing recent per-country figures for European Energy independence.

Wind is a no brainer here in Ireland. We have no conception of what 'blighting the landscape' means, compared to Germany, considering how under utilised the resource is here compared to there.

He was talking about Ireland, not Germany. And in that context, your assertion is nonsense. Ireland's highest wind availability is in the months from November to March inclusive. Peak wind generation in Ireland over the last 12 months was in December 2023.

Source: SEAI Monthly Electricity Generation and Availability

Our climate is very different to yours.

Currently the 2 largest suppliers of uranium,and uranium fuel are Russia and Kazakhstan, so make of that what you will , the US is largely ok because they uranium from Canada ,

Australia is ramping up production quickly - that's likely to go to their Pacific allies , Japan and the US , maybe south Korea if necessary,

So that kind of leaves Europe high and dry , France used to get their fuel from central Africa , that ship has sailed - for now ..

So expanding nuclear isn't really that energy secure an option ,

Having said that , any country that has nuclear facilities that can be got going again for a reasonable sum ( ha ha ,reasonable sum and nuclear in the same sentence 😉) would be foolish not to , there is fuel available - just not as limitless as was once though …