"Green" policies are destroying this country

Yeah that quantitative review comparing productivity of organic and conventional farming systems further backs up the finding of Sri Lanka`s Agricultural Research Institute, which was confirmed when attempted nationally in Sri Lanka, and the University of Zurich study. I would not see how any of those could be looked at as being intentionally misrepresented for some reason.

You really do spout a lot of judgemental rubbish.

I do not know who these "core climate deniers" are you are now spouting about. Posters here are asking question on what is the timeline for this change to 100% renewables and how much it will cost. Pointing out that we are just piddling in the ocean as far as climate change is concerned when the major emitters of GHG`s are doing little or nothing with one in particular just adding to the problem building coal fired plants to boost their economy providing green tech What is the sense behind us culling cattle to further put a hole in our economy and create unemployment when a country shipping meat from the far side of the world to the E.U. using slash and burn to raise these cattle are increasing their herds by 24 million. There is also the questions of energy security and non-compliance, plus the Green Party stance on an E.U recognised transitional fuel source.

Up until your appearance nobody could give a reasoned coherent answer to any of those issue, but seemingly you can. So in your own good time.

Still waiting, but again in your own good time, for those stats on wheat grown organically from that source you linked to that unlike other sources posted here is one that could not be called unbiased as there aim is the promotion of growing food organically. Just saying like.😀

That is the mean construction time for the 441 built during those 35 odd years. If you have a problem with it take it up with the publisher of that data. Even though I`m at a loss to understand why you would see it as utterly deluded for Ireland as you have no such problem with every green project as they will apparently come in on time, or even sooner, and on budget. Admittedly though for most of them you haven`t provided either a budget or a timeline so difficult to make comparisons.

With respect, you don't seem to understand the difference between a tax allowance, a subsidy and a strike price.

Offshore hydrocarbon exploration has always been subject to tax allowances for exploration and development. Exploration is a risky business and private capital takes the hit if it turns out a dud. Costs are allowed against tax on future revenues. In spite of that, Corrib was a billion dollar disaster for Shell, partly because of development delays caused by protests from fringe groups. (https://www.irishtimes.com/business/energy-and-resources/shell-s-corrib-exit-leaves-energy-giants-up-to-2-5bn-in-the-red-1.3152789).

Wind producers also get tax allowances for capital costs. Right now there is a case before the courts where "Big Wind" is trying to also claim grid connections as capital costs, not currently allowed against tax by the Irish Revenue (source: KPMG). You say that "a premium is paid initially to encourage companies to build out the infrastructure". What's this "initially"? Onshore wind is a mature technology: the case for subsidies might have been tenable twenty years ago, but not now. Strike prices for RESS 2 are locked in for almost two decades, up to 31 December 2039.

But in any case, this brings us to your confusion about subsidies vs. strike prices. Ironically, this could actually bolster your case -- strike prices are not subsidies:

The fly in the ointment is that the favourable comparison between strike prices for UK offshore wind and nuclear in that article makes the Irish situation even more bizarre. The strike price just agreed for Irish onshore wind under RESS 2 -- a fully mature technology -- is the same as the cost of the Hinckley Point nuke. And that's only the private commercial ones. The "community led" projects under RESS 2 came in 20% higher again at €116 / MWh.

What the hell is it about this wonderful little country? Our new onshore wind is costing twice the price of UK offshore five years ago, and the same as an expensive one-off nuke. You can add the inability of the Greens to drive a good deal to their other shortcomings.

A final point: concerns have already been raised about the likelihood that excess UK wind capacity will be practically worthless at times of high production. (Sorry, I like to provide references unlike some on here who think it's beneath them, but I'll have to dig this one out later). Maybe one to think about for those who think we'll be making loadsa money out of 30 GW of excess offshore wind on an island with c. 1 GW of interconnector capacity.

If you want a rapid roll out of renewables, as the government does, you continue paying subsidies beyond the point where they are absolutely necessary. The problem the Irish wind energy sector has faced for the last 20years is that the ESB has hobbled their expansion by only allowing a very limited number of grid connections on a competitive auction basis. A unrealised negative consequence of this model is that much of the wind has been installed in suboptimal locations where it was convenient for the ESB to offer connections - not in the best wind locations. Ireland after a promising start has fallen way behind on what it set out to achieve and is now in the expensive business of playing catch up to meet obligations it knew it had over a decade ago. This is why the government has committed to unreasonably high supports. if the government had have put more supports into grid upgrades and applied more pressure on the ESB it would be very likely that wind would not need these levels of support as all the pent up demand for wind projects from the wind industry would have been met.

I am not remotely convinced that the government has learned its lesson since it is still allowing the ESB to bottleneck the whole process with its market based auction model.

And the final strike price is part of the bidding process so not fixed at the high rates you quote.

As is typical of the Irish state - it has made a strategic hash of it.

I'm not sure that the latest development with regard to the UK gas exports to other countries has been already detailed. The latest is the UK has plans to cut the supply of gas to EU pipelines if the Russia crisis intensifies

"A cut off of the so called interconnector pipelines would be among the early measures under the UK emergency gas plan, which could be triggered by the national grid if supplies fall short in the coming months "

No reason to believe Ireland will be a special case where the UK needs its own gas resources in the event of domestic shortages. And all the more reason why we need to develop our own independent supplies and reserves of natural gas and LNG to ensure the countries requirements for electricity generation regardless of the greens insistence otherwise

Report from the 29 June 2022

Can’t see that happening as WEF want private car ownership eliminated .

They are massively trying to decouple the use of physical resources and economic activity. The end result being you will slave away your whole life for feck all. Instead of a house you'll be able to rent a shoebox apartment, instead of a car you'll get the occasional use of a mobility service but they still want people to show up to work their whole lives. No car and no smartphone doesnt sound so terrible if you can spend your whole life in a cabin in the woods by a nice lake with all your friends smoking weed but they are desperate to prevent that too.

‘Farms need upgrade of electricity lines to maximise solar power exports to grid’

Extensive farming to qualify as two Eco-Schemes

It's not only random energy generators who like subsidy farming, it's extended to gas generators, farmers have a long history milking the system, now being paid to not produce food, with 3 phase the Tesla drivers from the city will be able to rapid charge their cars for their jaunt to their holiday homes heated with heat exchangers (invest in Coffee people will be standing around more often). Who's paying for this green utopia infrastructure (electricity consumers) and can it be done? Who wants more overhead high voltage lines - South Dublin needs them. How much will the solar Duck curve cost to manage? Unreliable power sources need backup generation on the grid, peak power consumption in Ireland occurs outside hours when solar is at it's maximum which is seasonally variant, this increase in demand means we will need more gas generator plants, so where do we get the gas from?

More climate scientists are beginning to link climate change with human extinction in the peer reviewed literature

https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.2108146119

Again let's not forget that peer review just means that the study and its methodology has been reviewed and is not nonsense, not that its conclusions are necessarily correct. Not entirely sure what purpose such things serve anyway especially as they are absolute worst case scenarios. COVID modelling predictions in the early days were of such ilk and wildly wrong.

Eirgrid are responsible for the transmission network, not the ESB. On that note, there was an ambitious project proposed a number of years back called Grid West looking to install a 400kV corridor along the west coast for the exact reasons you've outlined and allow wind farms connect to a string grid. Unfortunately, the NIMBYs came out in force and the project was binned.

Grand.

How much will it cost me to install a battery?

You need to change your fantasy picture. Probably old stock from global warming scare campaign. In case you are not in the loop it is "climate change" or "climate catastrophe" now.

You won't necessarily need to install a battery in your home. You may want one if you have a solar installation, but there are 2.5GW of grid scale batteries being installed commercially across between last year and this year mostly by private companies entering the market for grid services. They will be used to 'peak shave' and maintain frequency. People who have solar with battery installations at home can set up their system to use as little power as possible during the peak tines. This is already built into the next generation hot water systems, that heat water from the grid, but only when prices are cheap like this one https://tepeo.com/

Large Industrial and commercial plants with heavy electricity demand will replace their diesel (or supplement) backup generators with BESS which they can use to 'energy shift' (avail of cheaper off peak electricity by storing it for use during peak hours) if there are large swings in electricity prices

In a grid powered by mostly renewable power, there will be many times when more electricity is generated than we need at that time, so commercial grid servicing will be able to buy this power very cheaply and then sell it back when supply is lower than demand.