"Green" policies are destroying this country

Wholesale electricity prices fell by 2.0% in the month to September 2025 and were 16.2% lower than September 2024. source

Yet domestic retail electricity prices continue to rise . . .

Government is also floating the idea of running an extension lead to Spain. That's on top of the extension lead to France (est. cost €1 billion) and another to the UK. (MaresConnect est €500 million+). Changed to million h/t Charlie

I will watch the outcome of this in the UK with interest: Market-wide half hourly settlement: Vital to making new energy work

There were roughly 38 million smart meters installed in UK households at the end of 2024, each with the potential to share meter readings with suppliers on a half-hourly basis. That half-hourly capability is essential to making the most of the UK’s renewable generation capacity. 

Unlike with fossil fuels, we can’t decide when we want to get electricity from resources like the sun and wind, because they are dependent on factors like weather and time of day. This means that at some times we are likely not to have enough renewable electricity available to meet demand, and at others are likely to have too much. 

Through a combination of battery storage and adapting the way consumers use electricity we can overcome that challenge by building more flexibility into the energy system, but this second part requires data. 

Do you have time to monitor prices every 30 minutes? Unless you are rich, quite a dilemma, when its dark and freezing cold outside (no wind, no sun), you have babies or elderly folks to care for and need heating.

Interesting timing, Gates public change of mind in the run-up to the UN COP in Brazil. Guess he is tiered of loosing money on breakthrough energy and beyond meat. It's not the only source of problems to the cause. More seriously for us though the lunatics that run the EU are getting told back off.

US and Qatar threaten EU with LNG stoppage over sustainability law (google translate)

In a joint letter to EU states, U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright and Qatar's head of department, Saad Sherida Al-Kaabi, sharply criticize the planned sustainability law. It is, according to their conclusion, a risk to the economic strength of the continent. The two ministers point out that the EU can hardly secure its energy policy without stable gas supplies. The Financial Times and Bloomberg also report on the letter, which puts Brussels under pressure to avoid a trade conflict.

Except, the opposite is true, coldest months of the year see most overcrowding, unless you are in Limerick where is is year round: January 2025: worst month for hospital overcrowding on record - INMO

So is the tide going out on this alarmist agenda?

Despite the ramping of eNGO press releases in advance of the UNs annual COP jolly, this time in Brazil, this is very much the case: Climate plans don't limit dangerous warming, UN says ahead of COP

The End of Paris? – Climate Scepticism
Most countries are not even going through the motions of setting pretend targets that they have no hope of meeting. That’s how little they care. Though the EU, riven with political discontent, is still arguing over how ambitious to make their commitment. By the time the US is officially out (Jan 2026), the EU may be back in.

António Guterres will be retiring as head of the UN soon, with nothing to show for his efforts (except a fat pension). What is the UNs key mission and why so many wars (Ukraine/Russia, Israel, Sudan, Nigeria (Muslims slaughtering Christians) . . . It envisaged role in 1945 was never about climate.

The UN IPCC is, as its founder Maurice Strong had always intended, a political and not a scientific body. It is pursuing a partisan, self-serving and in some respects scientifically disreputable course. It has a direct, financial vested interest in prophesying doom. After multiple decades it is scraping the bottom of the barrel and the next climate report will feature Dr Friederike Otto of Imperial College whose method, known as simply ‘attribution’, is arguably unscientific, and only of any use in generating climate fake news stories. The former New Zealand Prime-minister Jacinda Arden is a contender for Guterres job, she is very much in the climate alarm camp, her climate policies have been undone since her departure from New Zealand. At this point the UN may want a change of direction.

Labour hits record low as Greens rise gaining support in London, new poll shows

We have to keep an eye on UK politics. There may be a few more years to go to an election, in recent years the UK has gone through prime-ministers in fairly quick succession, support for Conservatives and Labour has fallen to the extent that Greens are starting to come in to contention to capture urban left wing votes. It appears in the recent Welsh elections that Labour voters strategically switched to Plaid Crymru to deny Reform a seat. This tactic if carried forward to deny Reform may potentially give Greens enough seats to hold balance of power in a future UK parliament coalition.

What happens in Ireland depends on how the Social Democrats fare in future, they pull from the same vote pool as the Greens.

Law of unintended consequences. Few farms or households keep chickens compared to the past, one of the main incentives to keep foxes in check gone, combined with farmers liability concerns (land preserved, fur & feather) plus restrictions on hunting with hounds has meant the fox has expanded range to roam compared to the past. Back in the 1950s, men in my local local parish formed a coursing club, they had no hares in the area, they went to Galway, netted hares and started a breeding program which they managed up until the late 70s. Last hare netting done around here maybe a decade ago they caught foxes and no hares. So yeah, that population has been left to it's own devices with no active population management, likewise the deer population is expanding across the country, the deer was not an animal we had in this area when I was growing up, in the past decade sightings have been more common.

The Green party made an attempt to try become relevant to the Irish public, this time using the presidential election as the pretext to insert themselves into the media. When every major party has a climate policy, there is nothing to distinguish them from the crowd except their ideological adherence to the cause at the expense of everybody else.

I am thinking we need to bring back brown envelopes stuffed with cash to get infrastructure projects moving, it would probably be cheaper. Everything is so gummed up in bureaucracy, hardly anything gets done and instead of making a few quid tax free they extract the money legally in project cost overruns.