"Green" policies are destroying this country
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CAP23 outlines the plans for electricity
A look back
As to the increase in prices and what we can do to address such things happening again in the future
Since 2021, there have been significant increases in prices in the international oil and gas markets, due to increased demand as the post-COVID 19 recovery continues and the disruption to traditional energy supplies following the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The resultant sharp increase in energy prices underlines the importance for Ireland to eliminate our dependency on fossil fuels and that an increase in renewable energy generation, along with supporting flexibility and demand management measures, is necessary for our future energy security.
There's a list of specific actions to accelerate the rollout of renewables
For 2023 alone
For the period 2023-2025 inclusive you can see how the above list leads on to follow up actions in 2024 & 2025, below is just an excerpt, but there's several pages that continue like this for the above list
Its nice to see this level of multi-year, step-by-step, planning and its prevalent throughout the document
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On buildings the CAP23 lays out the following
The NZEB & ZEB targets are interesting. Buying a new home from 2030 onwards built to those standards will take feck all to heat
Lots of changes coming on standards and regulations
As regards retrofitting, they're going to struggle unless we get more people trained up to do the work but they have a long list of actions nonetheless but good to see training is factored in. I won't copy the retrofitting list of actions here as its several pages long, but its on page 176 for anyone interested
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On Transport, CAP23 lays out the following
Everything in the CAP for transport is based on the Avoid - Shift - Improve approach
One of the ways the govt is leading by example, is in procurement. from Jan 1st 2023, with a few exceptions, all new vehicles purchased by the govt will have to be zero emissions. An example of an exception would be where no EV version exists yet, think heavy plant machinery or highly specialized equipment like a fire engine.
There is a lot about disincentivising private vehicle use and incentivizing sustainable modes, most of which has been discussed here a lot over the last week so no surprises there. Some additional bits are
- Going forward, the only parking minimums that will be applied will be for disabled parking.
- The remit of the NTA will be extended to cover all cities to bring some coherence and an "approach consistent with the Climate Action Plan objectives for transport"
- Road space reallocation will feature more prominently as time goes on
- The safe routes to school program is to be expanded, specifically to reduce the "school run" car trips
- By making school buses free it showed there was massive hidden demand. More to come on this, expect to see this expanded further
- Planning decisions will have to give greater significance to access to sustainable travel modes. We're already seeing this with ABP and local councils refusing applications/appeals due to developments that rely solely on the car yet are within the likes of Galway city
- Greater Dublin Area Metropolitan Area Transport Strategy to be published next year. Galways one is to be updated (similar to Limerick & Waterford)
- As all county councils have to develop their own Climate Action Plans, there will be engagement with them especially as regards transport
- Speed management and enforcement to be advanced (no idea what this entails but likely a 30k limit rollout nationally
- Incentives coming for the purchase of e-bikes & e-cargo bikes as an alternative to the car
A new National Demand Management Strategy (DMS) to be developed in 2023. This is similar to the 5CDMS that I've mentioned here a few times
Based on the evidence set out in the Five Cities Demand Management Study and the NTA’s modelling analysis, potentially effective measures include removing free workplace parking; increased parking charges; introduction of congestion and road user charging; and increased fossil fuel prices. Demand management will also be supported by road space reallocation and other planned measures, such as shared mobility and mobility-as-a-service.
Development of the DMS will require a strong evidence basis, a public consultation process and cross-Government collaboration given the linkages with policies on taxation, planning, and urban and rural regeneration. Demand side measures will only be effective and acceptable when alternative, more sustainable, options are available.
What this means in practice is in the cities and towns there will be increased demand management measures implemented as these locations will already have buses, paths, and in time, bike infrastructure.
There are pages and pages of actions listed under the Transport heading, far too many to list everything here so I'll just show a few bits
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First off - establish a taskforce. Another Quango to leech off public finances.
Then they go on to publish four reports
Following that they go for a jolly off to the Eirgrid office to issue them a tut tut over connecting things to the grid
The seventh action despite there being a total of twenty seven for the entirety of 2023 is to publish an annual report. This is probably an admission of how much this quango will get done.
The rest of the document is yet more reports to be published.
From all the reports, guidelines and policies they plan to do there'll be fookin nothing left of the Amazon for all the paperwork these goons intend burying the nation in.
Another talking shop for the well heeled and it'll cost us a pretty penny.
The sooner these shower of tramps are voted out of office the better.
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