"Green" policies are destroying this country

It’s a bit hard to judge as price of electricity went up so much throwing my initial plan off,

and feed in tarrifs were only introduced recently, before that went to grid for free

And standing charges and taxes on taxes still appear on bills

Then Covid led to larger work at home usage

And funnily enough ended up using much more electricity with plug-in hybrid

I’m 4 years in, breakeven assuming todays prices is another 4-5 years away, however I doubt the chineseum battery would last that long, panels meant to be to last 2-3 decades

It’s an ok investment (tho with benefit of hindsight would have made more in stocks) but it still requires esb etc to maintain gas as backup as the overall capacity factor over a year is only 9-10% heavily skewed towards summer (I found May is best)

Batteries not included 😂

Battery my main worry, and looking around I see if anything installation and battery costs have gone up

You can also see from graph very small year on year drop in panel capacity

Don’t forget it might be sometime before SEIA pay the grants long after you have to pay the complete install costs, they do drag their feet and there is bureaucracy

Heh I just checked some energy related stocks in same 4-5 year timeframe

• XOM Exxon +58%
• LNG Cheniere +268%
• BP -14%
• CVX Chevron +35%
• Nasdaq +102%
• S&P +75%
• Orsted (wind) -56%
• SO Southern (utility with nuclear) +38%
  

I went early, before it wsa "cool" to put in solar. Paid off in 4 years and that was without FiT

Now the price has gone up but with FiT if sized correctly and the person does proper research the payoff time can be circa 5-7 years.

Depends on your usage. If you do the correct sizing you can stay as much as possible off the grid during late spring/summer/autumn months and then if batteries make sense you can offset the load in winter to nighttime only charging. Batteries have come down significantly now since the high point of covid, a lot cheaper

When I posted recently about the grid been a mix, it was about the grid now

You lied again and it's embarrassing

Now stop quoting me as I no interest in these ramblings of nonsense. As I said, cop on to yourself. It's pathetic

You couldn't plug in an electric car, yet you are trying to share information on solar panels 😂

You are spreading misinformation on batteries etc and the degradation of the solar panels

The grant is going down and not up. So again you are spreading misinformation.

I never said nobody would exaggerate, I told them to get correct information from the many user groups, not the nonsense and incorrect information you are spreading around

I would question why you invested in solar panels when you clearly have no understanding of the technology, especially when it is such a big investment. What research did you do before buying and after? as you dont seem in anyway uptodate

programme for government dropped

bye bye Dublin airport cap

What I don’t understand is how with current data in hand like the graph you posted here

And this graph I posted earlier for 2024

how can anyone with a straight face make claims that wind+solar (backed by coal and gas):

• is cheap
• is green (low CO2)

It’s pure gaslighting (ha!) by this stage, the facts are there slapping everyone in face each time they get an electricity bill

From these two graphs for 2024 it’s abundantly clear that the only European countries that are both cheap and green (often by order of magnitude) are those that embraced some amounts of nuclear power (France, Finland etc)

While likes of Germany and a Ireland are spending trillions between them on policies that don’t lead to advertised results

That would involve giving up nicely paid science and engineering jobs and going into politics and constantly lying to the population

Notice how politics (especially the “green” kind) attracts all sorts of questionable characters and bicycle repair peddler's

Neh more than likely the population will backlash and run the eejits out of town with pitchforks like we seen in last election

Most of the population doesn’t care about CO2 and not smart enough to realise their high cost of living is directly related to failed green policies