"Green" policies are destroying this country

Point out one poster who is against renewables contributing to the grid. And that's all they can do contribute until massive storage on a scale not created in this world yet can be achieved. It's called realism and practicality. Something a lot of modern day greens have fook all of which has contributed to this absolute mess.

Who that in front of Eamon Ryan holding the FoE banner?

Handy gig, The usual suspects (George Lee - RTE, Caroline O'Doherty, Independent Newspapers) put their name to a press release from an NGO called Friends of the Earth, an organisation that pulls funds from the taxpayer via the EU, Irish government departments and parent organisation (FoE Europe). How much do FoE Ireland pull in from the Irish government? (waiting on 2021 accounts). The grants usually come from Department of the Environment (Eamon Ryan) routed via the Irish Environment Network (IEN) and Department of Foreign Affairs (Simon Coveney) routed via Irish Aid. The press release also includes academic Dr Cara Augustenborg, the expert who was handed climate role canvassed for Greens. The circular economy in action.

I think you're missing a few important points there. Current battery storage provides peak shaving for a matter of minutes while more baseload is brought online. Yes, it can save money vs. gas peaker plants, but it won't substantially reduce the amount of gas and coal you burn.

Re: interconnectors, are you saying that we can get rid of gas and coal for baseload once we build enough interconnectors to provide for our entire demand when the wind isn't blowing?? You're seriously suggesting that we will get rid of all baseload capacity and depend on someone else across the sea to provide it?? If everyone did that, who would actually be generating any power? Green nuttery at its worst!

Did you see him arriving at government buildings on the six one news?

it’s like a comedy sketch

Trigger was probably only after taking the bike out of his state car parked around the corner. Imagine him in power?? An embarrassment.

I have sympathy for the green movement but continuing to charge 49% fuel taxes NOW is a travesty to me. They WILL never get my vote.

Their solution is usually to tax us to death.

Of course they and FFG have made a total shitballs of our gas and electricity supply ensuring Irish people will suffer this Winter and likely to see powe cuts also...Irish people take a lot of blame aswell, for instance going along with rhe moratorium on offshore exploration and fracking and blocking planning permission of new plants.

Lets get real here. You cant block everything and then expect to have a functioning energy supply.

Irish people need to educate themselves on how a lot of current pricing is simply government charges.

Also on the way that the regulator allowed the energy suppliers to get all get paid the same price daily, no matter that wind supply is abundant and already subsidised by taxpayers in our standing charges!

in the scenario that the war had never happened, but let’s say there was an accident at either end of the Moffat line that knocked gas supply off for two weeks and this coincides with a period of calm weather with low wind- we would be in the exact same position.

ER is using the war as a distraction for the lack of alternative fossil fuels sources we have on the system, the lack of alternative generation, and the lack of renewable generation also.

Right so there’s 7313MW including DSU (demand side unit) which I presume means customer providing power.

DSU=540 MW.

3794MW are gas/distillate oil this includes Aghada, dublin bay, great island etc.

So In the scenario that Moffat goes offline and we are depending on corrib then 70% of the gas generation will have to turn to distillate oil, which would be 2655.8MW.

As I understand it we would have 90 days of oil on whiddy island that might be able to keep these plants running but that’s a massive logistical task- I’ve pointed out before we don’t have a pipeline going from whiddy island to the rest of Ireland.

So corrib could supply approx 1138.2MW with the rest of the gas plants running on distillate oil.

Moneypoint would also have to be maxed out providing its full 855MW.

Do we have the demand figures from last year? Actually I see a figure of 6878MW as the all time peak demand.

Those figures for solar, on-shore and of shore wind are meaningless.

They are the maximum nameplate capacity. Little or no wind or sunshine and as we have seen a number of times in the past year alone they drop off to virtually nothing.

For on-shore wind here the 12 month rolling average is around 30%. Off-shore for the U.K. around 40%.