"Green" policies are destroying this country

By 2060, mix of wind, PV, chemical storage and nuclear I’d say. Depends on how the technologies develop really.

Yes we should most certainly do that. I don’t think there is any question that we didn’t heed ‘warnings’ in any case. What actually happened was that the two bodies you mentioned, amongst others arguably, somehow failed to deliver adequate security of supply.

if the reason why all three MP units are unlikely to trip out together is not obvious to you then I don’t see any point in discussing it further.

I’m afraid I don’t know the circumstances of the event you refer to.

I referred to advice of an authoritative international agency. You then say they were wrong on the basis of an anecdote. This is a fun way to argue on the Internet but thankfully no one would try to run an actual national electricity grid on the basis of whataboutery

Are you saying we are in compliance ?

No intention of. 😁

I just directed him to the horses mouth.

You can add a third body, the Irish Green Party for their refusal to not just consider a recognised E.U. transition source with LNG but actively attempt to prevent its use.

I doubt one plant in Dublin and another in Cork both tripping out within seconds of each other with a loss of 830 Megawatts was an obvious possibility to anyone either until it happened and it didn`t lead to your "curtains" scenario.

There is no whataboutery, it happened November 2021 and was widely reported.

Literally no wind?

What does the Green Party have to do with it? They are only in government a wet day. They didn’t set up any of the mess that led to the potential shortfall

LNG is another completely irrelevant tangent. LNG is just a way to increase gas bills for consumers who will have to pay for it

Your strange conclusions from the tripping incident is exactly what whataboutery is, you read something on The Journal and then you decide the long-standing advice of an authoritative international agency can be ignored.

The Green Party have been in government for over two years, and Eamon Ryan is the relevant Minister for energy. Along with himself actively attempting to block a private company from building a LNG terminal,a member of his party is proposing legislation to ban all forms of LNG (or like nuclear, hypocritically all forms other than those coming through an extension lead). If you believe that is helping with energy security then that is up to you, although I fail to see how.

Whether you like it or not, LNG is recognised by the E.U. as a transition energy source, and if the rest of Europe had the same attitude towards LNG, we would not have seen gas prices falling.

Which authoritative international agency told you that a year ago within seconds of each other, two plants 220 Kms apart as the crow flies tripped out with a loss of 830 Megawatts to the grid was whataboutery ?

Whoever they are you should mention to them to take it up with Eirgrid who confirmed it happened, and quess what ? It didn`t result in the "curtains" scenario such a sudden drop off you claimed would collapse the grid.

What sort of security of supply event would an LNG terminal protect us from? There is now loads of LNG capacity in Europe (as you point out). Be in no doubt, Irish consumers would have to pay for this LNG terminal. If Ireland really were to invest in an LNG facility they’d be best off investing in one in Qatar or UAE. (LNG is another of your tangents of course to distract from the fact that your nuclear idea is a nice idea to talk about at the local pub but nothing more.)

Do you think it is right to take risks with the national grid? Just because we got away with it once? If one of the plants had been your AP1000 and it had been the middle of the night do you think we would have gotten away with it as easily?

The IAEA advises that in most circumstances, no one nuclear source supply more than 10 percent of the trough load. They say this on the basis of decades of experience. They don’t depend on Eirgrid for advice. (But perhaps you should write to them with a copy of the newspaper article you read, and ask them to change the long-standing advice.)

…and it kicks off! Brownouts across North Kildare this evening as wind generation drops to about 200 MW at peak usage time!

Was there yeah?

Power Check is showing a local fault in Leixlip, that affected about 2,900 customers for 3 hours.

Care to explain how that translates to "brownouts across North Kildare"?

A region with about 70,000 residential customers alone?

You really do not have a clue as too what you are talking about.

Do yourself a favour, next time you are in your local pub don`t mention your idea that if we were to invest in an LNG facility we would be best off investing in one in Qatar or UAE. In fact other than saying it in your own head, do yourself a favour and never mention it to anyone.

Probably best to do the same with your no more than 10% nuclear. Even somebody down the pub could find this within seconds.

Up to yourself, but would you not be better off doing a bit of research than what you are doing here with your time.

Wind and solar can't provide energy security.

I`ll say this much for you, for someone that has got so much wrong you are very bolshie.

Your last post showed you did not have even the vaguest clue on LNG where you thought that if we were going to build a LNG terminal we would be better off doing so in Qatar or the UAE, so with that level of understanding even attempting to have a conversation with you on it would be a complete and total waste of time.

As far as your 10% nuclear goes why don`t you go back and read what the IAEA actually says rather that what you appear to believe they said. I`ll save you further embarrassment by letting you do that yourself rather than me posting it here.