"Green" policies are destroying this country

Yeah

we have not yet invested in our power needs, multiples of billions is required immediately, but it may never happen!

Are you sure about that?

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Billions have been invested globally over the last decade in Renewable energy generation. Much of which is still heavily subsidised it and propped up with non renewable energy sources such as gas because unfortunately Renewable energy generation remains an unreliable means of energy generation.

In Ireland- outside the investments of billions of Euro by private equity firms in renewable energy, every household in the country pays an annual public service levy which is money collected from electricity customers and primarily used by the ESB and other suppliers to cover the costs of generating renewable energy

Unlike those paying the Public Service Levy - those investing privately in these projects recieve a guaranteed income on all electricity generated irrespective of demand. Its a helluva way of making money, if you've got the money to invest in the first place

Abolished? Nope.

Recent wording of the current changes detail that the there will be a reduction to zero of the Public Service Obligation (PSO) levy on electricity bills, because of the soaring energy prices.

This would indicate the change is temporary in nature. The reduction won't kick in until October 2022.

For 2020-2021 alone the public service levy collected approx €393.13 million from electricity customers in Ireland. The public service levy has been in place since 2001.

I'll let you do the maths of how much has been paid by every man, woman and child in this state for the last 20 years under the public service levy alone and towards investing in renewable energy generation and yet bizarrely electricity costs are rising regardless with diesel generators now being planned for to ensure stability of supply.

he can't approve or not approve anything, that is down to the department.

ultimately you haven't any evidence that ryan is corrupt, because he isn't.

I don't think the PSO is needed anymore. Renewables are so economically attractive with these high gas prices that they are being built as fast as the red tape allows

If Ireland magically could get offshore wind through our planning system immediately we could have multiple GWs of offshore wind capacity installed by 2025.

The bottleneck now is not the lack of investment, its the slow planning process

you aren't because it's not needed.

The average household electricity bill in Ireland is now 1509 euro. Minus that PSO levy would leave it at 1451 euro.

Problem is that the reduction in VAT on electricity is going. The present 9% rate is going back to 13.5% in October as well, so that 1451 euro then becomes 1512.Two euro more than now. That is not a help with energy costs. It`s just swings and roundabouts.

I genuinely don't know what you mean by this. My point is that the ability to build infrastructure is bring restrained by the capacity to review and approve/deny said infrastructure

I don't think we should reduce Oversight. I think we should put better systems in place to improve efficiency in the planning process

The greens are not primarily focused on energy prices, because in the long term current energy prices are a flash in the pan.

The long game is to support policies aimed to rapidly decarbonise using fiscal instruments to smooth the transition for households

I agree, because apart from you, the licencees and a few other pro fossil fuel heads, nobody cares about ballyroe

Irelands energy security is covered by Moffat

Our long term strategic interest is in becoming a net energy exporter through offshore wind generation

Countries who refuse to tackle climate change will be the pariah states when these changes become reality.

The people who say 'we're too small to make a difference'

We're big enough to be judged as guilty by future generations

Ireland’s energy security is covered by Moffat

I'm not sure how anyone could be uninformed regarding the significant problems in relation to security of supply and the Moffat pipeline

The Energy Regulator has already detailed that the UK gas supply arrangements from Britain are not secure.

This has been known about for several years now.

The Barryroe oil and gas field is part of Ireland’s valuable natural gas reserves which will help provide essential non renewable energy generation in the period of transition. It's importance is to the country as a whole, not those you chose to throw shite at by name calling

Much of Europe is already at a point with regard to renewables, not there is any shortage of renewable infrastructure to generate electricity. Rather that renewable energy generation is unreliable at this point in time as has happened this winter right across Europe when there were lengthy periods with little or no wind.

The challenge is dealing with those issues whilst using our own natural resources and building the necessary LNG facilities to support Irelands current renewable energy policies