"Green" policies are destroying this country

Compared to a nuclear wasteland, followed by loss of power anyway. We'll have to deal with the blackout. Either way by the time it's operational it would be somewhere in the the 2060's or 70's so I'd be close to 100.

We need to look at the here and now, the 2020's.

If we have blackouts this year next and we don't see a clear well thought and achievable plan to get from dependance on gas to renewable and stored energy. The green party will be finished in government and possibly Ireland. The next government will be under pressure to solve the power/energy crisis with limited options they will reinstate older oil, coal or peat power plants with some from of green-washing side step of the problem.

Problem is we’ve had extended periods of low wind output in winter.

If we lose the gas at that point we are in trouble.

Restarting an electrical grid (called a black start) is to be avoided if possible, it will take weeks to get it backup again and probably several months to recover from any equipment damage if the outage does not take down manufacturing businesses. The Texas outage was triggered by significant a drop in wind output during a cold spell, which meant the Texas authorities had to drop some of the load on the grid, they had not done any planning on this and in the process turned off the power needed to keep the gas pipelines running, as a result this set off a cascading series of failures which meant no power to the gas plants . and the grid mostly went down.

South Australia is an an example of a grid that collapsed due to the sudden drop in Wind in mid afternoon, hottest part of the day (think air conditioning), they put the batteries in to keep the grid up long enough so backup diesel generators can kick in. They have also since then put in inter-connectors to other Australian states that have coal plants generating power.

Individual Australians have raised much the same concerns as raised on this thread.

The Greens are fanatics -

Reduce the national herd, will only increase the Herds in Brazil etc. which is environmentally worse

Making a new car costs more carbon than fixing one, so make existing cars more environmentally friendly is a better policy than hounding existing cars off the road, with spurious NCT fails, expensive fixes, and taxes

Attacking rural Ireland, will mean these people will have to move to cities - more environmentally negative

An LPG terminal - should have been bulit and needs to be built now in Shannon or in Cork, gas more environmentally friendly than other FF, easier to transport, and turn off and on able! gives us more fuel independent options

Winterising the grid and economics of supply/demand were factors that exacerbated the situation, however, the fact is wind failed beforehand, not due to wind turbines being frozen, the wind speed dropped. Not only did wind speed drop in Texas, it dropped in other mid-Western states. Here is the wind output from the SouthWest Power pool region that manages the mid west of the United States. Look at the coal output and wind generated output at the same time. They got hit with the same cold weather Texas did, coal gas and oil saved them.

It's there in the graph. The wind speed dropped in front of a major surge in demand for electricity due to intense cold, there is no escaping that wind generation failed to deliver when it mattered most, not only in Texas but over a wide geographic area of the United States.

Have a competition. Free electricity for the area for 25 years. Just think of all the EV`s and heat pumps they could buy with the savings. That should keep the greens happy.

Of the last 411 nuclear power plants built, mean construction time was 7.5 years.

How many years before the last renewable source is added to give us 100% dependable renewable electricity ?

A whopping 1.4% of our electricity is right now coming from renewables (mostly hydro). Basically statistically irrelevant. The wind propaganda laid bare for all to see.

For the period 2010 - 2019 we had 13 Amber Alerts. For last year and this year so far we have had 10.

From Eirgrid : An Amber Alert may be issued when a single Event would give rise to a reasonable possibility of failure to meet the Power System Demand. Capital and highlight emphasis theirs. What in that is made up ?

What would be difficult to imagine of any sane person making something up, is that they would support a protest against gas fired plants when they are all that is preventing the grid from completely crashing, but you did did you not ?

There is no denying the fact, even for a permanent green apologist like you, that while the greens are prepared to throw money and resources at creating up to as much as 12 times the capacity we actually require to get to renewables being reliable, their strong-arm tactic attempts of getting to this Nirvana have resulted in us being left perilously close to rolling blackouts due to alternative power plants having been scaled back while others have been shut down, with further shutdowns planned for the immediate future.

Unbelievable how the greens have us all over a barrel.

Like they literally punish us with carbon taxes for using fossil fuels yet at the same time can only supply the country and keep the lights on with fossil fuels, yet they are paid the big money to solve all these issues and have the solutions.

My 6 year old could perform better than these imbeciles.