Energy infrastructure

Ah thats great - so I can expect a big reduction in my energy bills for that month so??

Folks, if we get a good spell of weather with no wind and Russia turns off the gas supply that they provide to Europe, how exposed are we to blackouts? I realise prices will go up regardless but I just wonder how exposed to blackouts we would be if the wind stops for an extended period of time while russias gas is turned off?

Think Russia provides 40 odd percent of gas to Europe.

In the short term (days - weeks) not very likely. While Europe gets 40% of it's gas from Russia, the percentage for Ireland is estimated at less than 3%. Our gas comes from Corrib off the Mayo Coast and via Scotland from the North Sea. We have some limited gas storage.

In the medium term (weeks - months) it is a potential. We use a lot of gas for generating electricity and heating homes. It is not inconceivable that we run out of the little amount of stored gas we have and that the North Sea gas we are using is sold to the mainland Europe market than us as they are willing to pay more for it than we are.

There's no version of the EU banning Russian fossil fuel imports / Russia turns off the pipes where reducing energy usage isn't going to be required. There's two options:

• There's the hard political decision of a a managed reduction of fossil fuel usage
• Or we make no hard political decisions and there's an uncontrolled reduction of gas usage, i.e. we run out of gas at tolerable prices and it causes blackouts

It is worth pointing out that Germany and other mainland EU countries have considered this. Trading information suggests that purchases of gas from Russia to countries like Germany are above normal. It is likely that German power companies are buying as much as possible right now and storing it to reduce price shocks in future.

I will refer you to the post by specialbyte.

Your telling me there is zero percentage chance of a blackout if we get a spell of weather with little to no wind generation (just like in 2021) that lasts a number of weeks?

At the same time as Germany and the rest of Europe stockpiling gas reserves?

What happens if mainland Europe offer to pay more for gas than we do, so that mainland Europe can meet the shortfall from Russian gas?

It’s so frustrating to see the likes of this and I can’t see it changing anytime soon.

The Green Party have a vested interest in the LNG plant not being built as they are against fossil fuel use and the potential for imports of fracked gas.

Sinn Fein object to everything.

labour are obsolete.

FF/FG probably won’t want to make it an issue unless someone else makes it an issue.

What a cluster fcuk!

It's part of the public service, there'll be more than enough people there, planning is notoriously slow anyway

They keep awarding contracts to companies who don't deliver, every BAM project is behind schedule and overbudget yet they are still being awarded contracts, other countries have penalties when contracts aren't finished on time ,here we just give them more time and money

Children's Hospital, Dungloe to Glenties Road.

More

https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-30904336.html

Basically ,all the eu rules have changed overnight - an lpg plant here is only of any use if we can then export it via a gas pipeline ... And while the greens are pushing renewables ,they also know we need gas to back up and decarbonize our grid -

We have feic all gas storage ... So are depending on uk storage - and they have feic all as well - ( I think most of the big gas generators need to be able to run on diesel for at least 10 days /)

Bio-fuels / bio-methane is sunk - it's using lots of energy and crops to produce energy at the expense of food ... And if you think there's a fuel shortage ,there's gonna be a food shortage in other parts of the world ...

How big a loss is 60MW in the overall scheme of things? It's the 7th largest windfarm in Ireland.

For all the talk of large scale future offshore wind, the rate of rollout of new wind generation in Ireland seems to have slowed in recent years and the short term pipeline is looking empty. Not sure if wikipedia is the best source.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wind_farms_in_the_Republic_of_Ireland