"Green" policies are destroying this country

And what makes you think the green saviour "interconnects" wouldn't be used as weapons of war in the future ?

https://www.irishtimes.com/business/energy-and-resources/esb-to-decommission-derrybrien-wind-farm-s-70-turbines-1.4828766#:~:text=The%20fines%2C%20which%20were%20imposed,EIA%20for%20the%20wind%20farm.

Planning: returning Ireland to the 1700's as quickly as possible.

All is going to plan.

They very well may be targeted too. But that would be direct military aggression. When OPEC decided to flex their muscles in the the 1973 Oil Crisis causing oil prices to quadruple, we got caught up in a dispute between Iran and Israel. And again in 1979 when the prices tripled again because of the Iranian revolution

Having our own energy supply that is distributed geographically provides some protection against these global economic proxy wars

I don't think there will be any temporary blackouts in Ireland. There is a risk that we might have some, but nobody wants to quantify that risk while you and others are talking about how there are inevitably going to be blackouts this winter.

We have a roadmap to get off fossil fuels. We need to accelerate this, not take giant leaps backwards because of fear mongering posts

We’ve been over this before.

The percentage risk would be much lower if we had an LNG terminal and gas storage but the CRU knows that, Eirgrid knows that, everyone knows that- bar you, your dear leader and the your little cohort on here.

But carry on.

@Mebuntu

Hardly surprising. They are essentially selling into a glut and buying from shortage.

That depends on your contract. In Holland there is real competition with more and more companies entering the market.Even though the grid is state owned the contract is between you and the energy supplier who takes back the energy generated by the solar panels for a fixed price. In my brother's case that actually isnt buttons. He did his homework crunching the numbers. On the mainland things usually are different which means better competition as there are more players in the field plus the numbers are bigger. Ireland remains an outlier. It is on the perifery with only 5 million inhabitants. Like insurance, it's a numbers game. Plus, the UK has left the EU which causes hickups and we are at the end of the line. Green energy depends on localized production put to use where it is generated. That is the main drawback of the technology. I actually see a great future for wind power, in time, with the backup of reliables. If we compare ourselves with Denmark which has a lot of wind power, they still heavily rely on fossil fuels. You just cannot run your main industry on wind and solar. Anywhere. Period.The Greens really dont care as they'd rather get rid of the whole lot and we all go to our local jobs on our bicycles and get home to our solar panelled small hobbit houses where we weave our willow baskets and tell tales around an open fire..i mean radiators.They want an end to Capitalism and a reset, no matter at what cost. Anyway, im drifting off a bit..

Lets introduce massive sources of intermittent power into the European electricity grid, concurrent with a reluctance to produce own fossil fuels, an over reliance on cheap steady pipeline sourced natural gas from Russia in the case of the continent and Norway & UK in the case of Ireland, then refuse to consider nuclear, while simultaneously attacking baseload power, in parallel drive up the demand for electricity for heat exchangers, transport and commerce (data centers in particular)

The policies governing the grid in Ireland are such that the grid operators cannot guarantee availability of power and blackout conditions are the inevitable trajectory. How do you put a probability on political risk?

"If you can't be a good example, then you'll just have to be a horrible warning."

Here is a discussion on the European energy crisis. Germanys Energiewende is going to be that horrible warning as they take down their domestic chemical industry, their production output depends on this and destroys the value of their enterprises.

I think we have a record for the number of straw men arguments anyone has fit into a single post

This really says it all ...

The poster knows right well that Ireland's emissions reductions efforts will save 0.0°C of warming. It won't stop any Greenland ice melting. None. When this is pointed out to him he switches to "we have to get off fossil fuels because ... reasons". How can you argue with this level of illogic? I'm starting to agree with the previous poster who said you can't have a reasoned argument with Greens because they're not coming from a place of reason. But maybe there's still value in exposing their dangerous obsessions before they wreck the economy beyond repair.

Because they are driven by ideology and not reason. You can't have a discussion with Greenies because they're driven by idealogy. Rational thinking, reasoning and logic goes out the window.