"Green" policies are destroying this country

Rubbish.

What you call lower rates are prices which are completely unaffordable for most of the people, not to mention what they become with several price increases planned this winter. With little to no gas available a lot of the people turn to electric so there hardly be "low demand" or any "off peak" demand.

One of The Faithfull here constantly mention "storage heaters" and to be honest I had no idea what they are so I had to google it. I nearly choked myself on my cold coffee.

We are not going but rather racing backwards. These storage heaters aka heat bank are something I remember from my childhood when we had plenty of cheap electricity (nuclear) so nobody bothered with cost of running these yokes. Truth is that this is old and tried and swiftly abandoned idea since they are absolute waste of power and space. Prone to breakups which are actually not easy to fix. I seen last one about 30 years ago back in my granny flat and she refused to get rid of that yoke even though it was not working as she used it as a shelf for some other stuff.

Wars are part of our nature, as sad as it is there always will be some conflict somewhere. Saying that our problems with energy are here because Putin is just childish attempt at shifting blame. Prices started rising during covid, way before "but Putin". Every time they run out of arguments trying to argue that most of the policies they pursue are idiotic or suicidal make believe stuff preaching about non existent technology they end up with "but Putin"...

Did we not try to turn away ship full of russian oil back in March?

Oh, but according to the Faithfull we should not worry as our gas is coming from english green and pleasant land and not from ze Russia.

Meanwhile...

https://www.independent.co.uk/climate-change/news/russia-tankers-rejected-uk-ports-b2032044.html

It was installed by a RECI electrician and his roofer subcontractor, I don't mess around with roofs or electricity, your trite observation does not hide the fact that the grant system is not fit for purpose, it has a created a bonanza for a select few and does not serve the general populace.

A system of vat elimination and tax write offs would be far better.

Politicians act because of Twitter and main stream media both of which do not take their hand off the panic button in regards to climate change and the woke agenda.They are still the minority but set the parameters that make it seem it is the majority view which it isnt. Reality will eventually bite. You only have to look at what happened in Sri Lanka where people are now facing starvation due to the Green agenda. The chilean people recently voted down a new woke constitution. People ARE fighting back. Germany is now realizing what it means when you push an ideology and put blinkers on. Some politicians see the writing on the wall and hear the loud voices of the majority having ignored them until now. Those above them simply want to implement policies agreed on EU and world level, out of the reach of democracy and individual countries, you know to 'save' the planet, pushing compliance. Eventually governments will try to control both energy and food supply by implementing far reaching controls, taking away farmers' businesses and controlling both land and output. Smart meters will facilitate control over electricity output and shut off when needed, individual blackouts if you will.

For a time the Green agenda will double down (as they are now), no more coal, oil, gas (and fertilizer!) wood , stop the sale of fossil fuel burners and make ordinary people suffer for their perceived sin of poisoning the planet. They will keep on rejecting nuclear power and would like to see rows of tiny houses that run on well, nothing but wind mills and solar panels. But then they will lose the majority of their support from other parties. If Sinn Fein has any chance they will have to severily cut the Green agenda to a sustainable size. If not they too will fall by the way side. The big 2 will eventually cop on and might actually get stronger if they shift policies which i think they will given the pressures. Sinn Fein will have to chose and there lies the rub. They want to go green and woke, none of which the people want. FF and FG will point this out and will make promises to a struggling population. Sinn Fein cannot stay on the fence at the next election.

In Germany people are now cutting down trees in preparation of winter. Too bad that Ireland has so few of them...i mean..trees..🙂

Spot on!

You could have saved time and effort on the storage heater.

I have no intention of shelling out 8K for a glorified electric kettle regardless of the unit price, and I doubt anyone with an ounce of sense would either.

If you are calling on the regulator to take action to prevent advantage being taken by energy companies of their customers, then perhaps you should start with the people you support, the greens, who through the E.U. gave renewable energy companies free hand to take advantage in the first place with their marginal pricing policy.