"Green" policies are destroying this country

Also the environmental movement want every house to have solar panels. This gives households a source of very cheap energy that's independent from government or corporate interests. Combining modern solar, batteries and energy efficient buildings and appliances means following green policies will hugely reduce energy insecurity

Energy unlocks potential. Decentralised, sustainable energy production is the next step in the unfinished industrial revolution.

I'm not saying people can immediately go fully 'off grid' with solar panels but it makes households much less reliant on the grid.

Who is manufacturing your Green solar panels and batteries? At what dirty cost so we can salve our conscience in western Europe?????

Insanity is living in a make believe world rather than in reality. Last year during the periods when wind generation was at 6% or less, then had we previously invested X16 times greater in wind turbines it still would not have provided 100%.

The reason that the same question is repeated is nothing to do with insanity. It`s to do with the expectation of a sane credible answer as to how green supporters intend going from where we are to this 100% renewable nirvana while applauding the campaign to prevent additional gas fired energy plants , attempting to ban LNG while ignoring our own energy regulator and E.U. directives on energy security. Especially after a year when renewables did not even keep pace with energy demand which resulted in a tripling of energy supply from coal and oil.

The real insanity is that greens are still waffling on about their make believe magic world, while not having a sane credible answer. Just more waffle attempting to disguise that.

I reckon there's also a serious issue where opinion on renewables and other related issues are being confused with factual answers.

There's a noticeable and prevading line of thought that where some green advocates have opined about something green - then apparently there's no need to discuss anything further.

A very strange position where greens are looking a buy in from the general public tbh

A notable example of this recently was Eamon Ryan, who unilaterly ruled out nuclear power as an option in the transition from fossil fuel, despite mounting calls from environmental voices to consider it.

Personally I'd like the idea considered by the government as a whole and not just Mr Ryan deciding that where he doesn't like something its not going to happen. See his attempts to stonewall the Appraisal program for the Barryroe oil and gas field and his attempts to interfer with an Bord Pleanála over the Shannon LNG terminal.

'Lol'

When the Government takes your money through taxes on the fuel you buy, and uses it to subsidise fossil fuels for low income families, where does that money end up going?

I'll give you a hint, (its to the fossil fuel industry)

Nope. When in here and now and people have little or no choice to buy fossil fuels to keep themselves warn - these subsidies help people do that and keep the lights on.

But sure fekm. As someone else here said sure doesn't Ireland have a very mild climate anyway or something

But let's not forget, not only are those fossil fuels helping raise huge amounts of tax for the government, a sizeable portion of of those taxes are available for both renewables and supporting alternative energy production in the period of transition to renewable energy generation

That is unless you are suggesting the entire country goes cold turkey tomorrow with no fossil fuels whatsoever? Somehow I don't think you're going to get a lot of support there Akrasia.

"The inflated prices are due to the war in Ukraine."

Wrong & Incorrect. Electricity prices were through the roof right across Europe long before the Invasion of Ukraine

With the volatility in gas and electricity markets haven been highlighted as being one of the casualties of the clean energy transition programme back in October 2021

"Since most countries still rely on fossil fuels to meet all their power demands, the final price of electricity is often set by the price of coal or natural gas. If gas becomes more expensive, electricity bills inevitably go up, even if clean, cheaper sources also contribute to the total energy supply"

https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2021/10/28/why-europe-s-energy-prices-are-soaring-and-could-get-much-worse

"As you have brought it up again, you have yet to propose an alternative to the marginal pricing policy, mainly due to the fact you know shite all about I reckon."

Why are you always on about posters bringing up the marginal price policy, Ban? But perhaps more importantly why do you have to be abusive about it?

Lots of posters have mentioned the EU marginal price policy for electricity. But every time I seem to mention it, you parachute in out of nowhere to ask what the "alternatives are"!

Can ye no look that yourself man?

Anyway you want an answer to the question you're using as some type of big lump of wood to try and whack people with. Grand.

I'll go with Charlie14's answer when you asked him the exact same daft question

The alternative is to stop charging everything in the mix at the price of the most expensive component.

The really obvious rinse and repeat is you doing what you have been doing here since day one. Total avoidance of anything you are asked and coming out with some very peculiar replies like, "still going on about wind" So why not about wind ?

Basically the only two renewables we have are wind and hydro, with no extra capacity for hydro.Last year wind energy dropped by 15.8% and hydro by 19.6% while our energy use increased by 4.3%.

The renewable energy share of electricity dropped by 16.7%, (down from 42% to 35%), and to compensate for that the use of coal and oil tripled accounting for 14.0% and 7.5% of input for electricity generation. Now it seems we are not suppose to talk about wind where both coal and oil generation plants are slated to close, and we have greens applauding attempts to prevent new gas burning plants to fill the gap, attempting to block LNG, both recognised as E.U. approved transitional sources, while whittling on about "plenty others" and off shore wind farms where even the most optimistic date for anything from them is at least 6 years away, (with very little evidence they are the solution) and still not an answer from one of them how we are going to get from where we are to 100% dependable renewable energy without gas.

The joke was on you there sunny where you thought the comment it was about an actual "memo" 🌞 lol

Tbf your comment is up there with the Russians bombing Kerry, their not being enough dead dinosaurs of the Irish coast and some posters not knowing Ireland had any natural gas resources amongst others 😁

Other than adding free magic beans to the mix I could see no other alternatives. I didn`t mention the magic beans as I was worried the poster might actually see them as an alternative to the marginal pricing policy