Gas price to rise by 39% and Electric by 27% in April.

Bollox to that - it's not complicated. These companies are either:

1) only signing on enough customers relative to the % of renewable energy being generated.

• i.e. If we average out at 36% of all electricity coming from wind turbines - then Airtricity (along with any other electricity company claiming to be 100% renewable) cannot realistically breach that share of the electricity market.
• If that is not the case, then they are 100% false advertising.

2) Running with the hares and chasing with the hounds. At a time when they over generate their average they sell this as a premium and make a sweet profit, and when they under-generate they pass the loss onto household bills.

There is nothing complicated about this at all - you're Airtricity you win-win either ways.

Finally - where the royal fcuk are the EU in all of this? These ba$tards should have price capped every litre of diesel, petrol and unit of electricity all across the EU at this stage. Currently, diesel at €1.30 per litre in Hungary, even less at €1.21 in Malta suggests there is room to price cap all across the EU and not have suppliers and forecourts take a hit. We're supposed to be a market of ~450 million and we can't collectively force the hand of suppliers?

If we can't do that, then what is the fcuking point of the EU - they're not looking after the EU citizen one bit.

Give over with that "be worth the EU looking at it" shyte. The EU have had price-spike warnings in relation to energy prices in the past. They've had a decade at least to come up with policy and to come up with something - but they've done fookin nuthin. Fook them, ba$stards one and all.

Any reason why the fuel mix has renewables at a much lower percentage than wind generated?

Utilise the wind energy during the night.

If you go to eirgrid dashboard and look at a 24 hour profile. When energy demand goes down in the night time the wind generated takes a near parallel line.

See references for those two reasons?