"Green" policies are destroying this country

they add proportional more RES.

You really haven’t got a clue.

9% RES in 2020 to 33% in 2026…

you are jumping from china burning coal to why we have the dearest electricity prices.

Deregulation is one of the reasons. And the market is one of the main reasons.

we are an expensive economy. We are also an island nation with relative low population density over a big enough land mass. We have no AC interconnections we rely on fuel import, these all contribute to high prices. We

Without RES they would be building 3 times as many. So by your logic Solar saved 255 lives. they would also be burning 50% more coal and oil..

you do realise that China builds far more than just solar panels…..

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Yes we should stop using fossil fuels instead of becoming more dependent on them

Or calling products that used fossil fuels (and slaves) in their manufacture as “green” or praising authoritarian countries who despite their social media greenwashing of themselves are anything but green in reality

There credential are that for grid supply during our times of greatest demand they are suppling nothing for two of the three daily peak demands.

All the countries that burn wood for energy in the E.U. will avoid having to pay emissions fines and everyone else will have to buy credits from them. So how does the credentials of wood burning stack up ?

If they do, then should we not be importing all the wood we would need from half way around the world to fulfill our demand needs and save the planet as well as ensuring we would not be liable for fines ?

Heck, we would even probably be quids in being able to sell credits if we could see through the smoke long enough to fill out the invoice

oh I understand quite well what greenwashing is and how completely pointless shifting of co2 production from us to China is, considering we share the same planet

And i also see how vocal the “environmentalists” are in condemning a 70 year old co2 free science and technology in favour of things that make us more reliant on gas as backup most of the time wind and sun do f all

Anyways most expensive electricity in Europe (and probably world) is about get more expensive

And you keep ignoring the fact that with 10% capacity factor the same panel would be relying on burning even more fuels most of the time it’s producing f all as backup

And that’s why at the time of this post France is generating 20x less co2 than us for every kWh, with us being second dirtiest in Europe right behind Poland

or we can go nuclear and not import panels made using coal and slave labour that require us to continue burning gas

… like France, Finland etc

We have 9GW of wind and solar on this all island grid with max demand of about 5.5

And majority of the time we have to burn gas to back them up

You don’t understand that building even more of something that produces **** all still results in **** all and reliance on gas

And that’s why we are the most expensive in Europe and one of the dirtiest and will remain there

You can put a nuclear plant on a 50 hectare plot in Dublin docks next to main population demand centre and not use up a good % of the arable land on industrial estates that still require expensive gas

why not? Sounds like you want green power but don’t want to live near it

As for rest of your post we built almost twice more renewables than the grid needs in GWh and what is the result? Most expensive in Europe and one of the dirtiest