Nuclear - future for Ireland?

in English please.

Are you suggesting we just keep burning fossil fuel. Bear in mind the the SMP will rise as we will call on the older less efficient plants

How do we meet demand for the next 50 years. ?

I could, but if you are saying you can see at least 5 GW of offshore installed capacity wind farms that were granted strike price contracts under ORESS 1 & 2 supposedly to become operational by 2030, then why will you not post who they are and what the installed capacity of each will be ???

PPAs are not public infrastructure and actually undermine the scope for powering Ireland with renewable energy. PPAs are just another opportunity through Datacentres for Multinationals to rape the country. They should not be cheered on by you Ted.

PPAs are slot better than the SEMO. Fixed price for life Not tied to oil and gas

Oh, before I forget, can you give me the name of those nuclear power plants that have been running for no issues, no upgrades or retrofits for 60 years?

After all, we don't want to be finding out people are making baseless claims they cant stack up now, do we?

You post so much absolute rubbish that you cannot even keep up with it yourself.

First there was no hydrogen strategy. Then it was an 80/20 split. Next it became 50% of generation to domestic consumers, 20% to hydrogen generation with the remaining 30% seemingly disappearing somewhere as you had no answer as to where it was going.

Now you are again rambling on about this strategy, which according to you didn’t exist, as if the state authorities through both the lack of this engineering knowledge according to you they supposedly learned, and the inability to get contracts for the strike price they were offering resulting in them being unable to get the this 5 GWs has in some unexplained way by you negated the strategy.

Your rambling nonsense about PPAs has no bearing either, and added to some of your other ramblings such as the decommission of a nuclear power plant costing in excess of €100 Billion and it taking 50 years to build a nuclear power plant give the distinct impression you are a bluff who just makes crap up and then posts further crap when called on it.

I would like to know this as well.

It seems @charlie14 and @bored65 want to down the possibility of renewables, but will not offer an alternative solution, apart from shouting about Nuclear, as if its a silver bullet and they don't want to get into the weeds about costs associated with that, never mind our planning system, which would make Nuclear a non-runner politically.

I say this as someone who would be pro-nuclear. I'd have no issue with it, but can someone explain to me how it's economical to throw €40-€60 Billion at a power plant?

Seems after checking, barely any reached the 60-year life span.

Fibs are being told.

UAE spent 28 billion and leapfrogged your Denmark (whom btw have almost as high consumer prices as Ireland) and now emit less co2, not sure where you decided to pull 60 billion out of, probably same place the 37 GW offshore plan in a country without offshore expertise appeared from

delivered on time and budget by Koreans

Here in real world based on real data wind and solar in Ireland are just a smokescreen for burning gas, call it greenwashing if you wish

They failed at lowering co2 compared to countries with nuclear and they failed at lowering prices instead making us one of the most expensive in world

The wind lobby loves to make promises but the facts and real world performance (or lack of lol) speaks for itself

If someone sold you a car that would randomly stop or throttle to walking speed forcing you to use expensive taxis (gas) to get to work you be right to say you were taken for a ride and lied to, yet that’s exactly what happened to Ireland and us blindly following Germanys failed trillion euro Energiewende which resulted in them going from and industrial powerhouse of Europe to a hollowed out economic husk begging France to balance their grid with nuclear

Lets fact check this, shall we?

According to the sources, Ireland has approximately 2.3GW of solar, of which approximately 750MW is rooftop solar.
As per your dashboard, rooftop solar is not captured, but it was; you could increase the solar figure by 50%

https://www.pv-magazine.com/2026/02/26/ireland-adds-1-gw-of-solar-in-2025/


As to wind, we have a bit over 5GW installed at present, according to government sources.

https://www.gov.ie/en/department-of-climate-energy-and-the-environment/press-releases/minister-obrien-highlights-irelands-significant-renewable-electricity-progress/

So the figure is really about 7.5GW. Not 9GW as you claimed. Again, you throw out figures to try and suit your argument.

But I figure I would like is the cost and timelines to build a Nuclear Power plant? Any guesses on that?

You say renewable is generating **** all…

Data shows it has generated almost 2/3rd of the energy demand for the past 24 hours.

You making a show of yourself in these posts tbh. I dont really have any skin in this game, came across this thread as its an interesting discussion but you are not doing the pro nuclear pov any favours imo.

You don’t even realise we have a single all island grid served by Eirgrid do you?

Republic: 5.1GW complete as of February, 0.4GW awaiting in final stages of commissioning, and 2.5GW stuck in planning

https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/question/2026-02-24/146/

NI: 1.4 to 1.6GW for 2025

what’s all that wind doing at the time of this post?

1.1 GW

terribly unreliable technology which distracts from gas and imports being used for majority of generation

You are making a show for yourself not knowing basic facts about our grid which can be retrieved in seconds and checked in realtime

Right now: gas and some wind Ireland 200g co2 per kWh

Compared to 74g in Finland and 21g in France

Counties that embraced nuclear

We are literally 10x worse co2 wise at this point while paying multiples in electricity bills all so the wind and gas lobby can milk the gullible paddies who can’t check basic facts

One can literally spend 5 minutes checking many of the links posted to learn that France and Finland and others have

1. Cheaper electricity
2. Much much less co2 emissions

Than us in Ireland whom keep getting lied to while being fleeced

earlier in thread I pointed out that it’s hilarious that one side posts facts and figures from the real world while the other side doesnt want to talk about facts and figures (or simply lie and obfuscate) and approach this engineering/economics/politics issue like some sort of a religion