"Green" policies are destroying this country

Actually wind and solar look more like the niche generators than nuclear.

For 2021. Nuclear 7,031 TWh, Wind 4,872 TWh and Solar 2,702 TWh.

The 3 articles I linked to are for future investment and are nothing to do with legacy nuclear in these countries. It's like comparing dial up with broadband and these major economies are investing for a reason while us here rely on windmills !

not the only country experiencing this problem, dont be surprised if we hear of the odd part of europe experiencing power problems over the coming days....

unfortunately for the short term, yes....

...our own fossil fuel reserves are simply too small, and not economically viable to invest in, multiples of billions are probably needed to (re)open our fields, which would more than likely only last for a few years, if even, we re better off putting that time and money into more long term energy investments, i.e. renewables....

we ll have on shore storage and of course the interconnects, this is where we have decided to go, cry all yea want about fossil fuels, its done....

Nah- just ok the exploration licence for barryroe and allow Larry to get the job done- however insert a clause that states Ireland has to be the first market any fossil fuels get offered to and market price is paid.

Security of supply.

Build more renewables in parallel with this of course.

read again, please!

yes, most countries are now strongly facing the risk of power outages, including ourselves, yes the interconnects may not be able to fulfill these requirements, but we re not prepared to accept the only true alternative after that, i.e. nuclear, but this may change if we start to experience regular power outages, who knows....

we have accumulated sufficient data that confirms, if a wide scale effort is made, i.e. substantial investments European wide, we may hopeful prevent such events, i.e. serious power outages, but we re seriously under pressure in creating this infrastructure, and i suspect we may not do it in time, i.e. european wide power outages are very possible in the coming years before construction is complete....

Are there any plans to build gas storage?

im not aware of any, but i simply may not be aware, i am aware of the debates of lng of course, but i personally think its best to get away from international fossil fuel markets asap, as they more than likely will remain highly volatile indefinitely, again, the main cause of our current inflation problems is directly related to them, so the only solution is to become as independent as possible from international markets, and again, nuclear and renewables are truly our only options, but....

i am aware of plans for on shore hydrogen storage, but all of this stuff is more than likely years away, we re in desperate need of a more unified European solution here, but i fear its not happening quickly enough, each european state cannot do this alone, we simply cant finance it....

...again, the approach of taxing and indebting the bollcoks out of citizens and countries simply wont work!

The responsibility for the lack of gas storage on this island lies directly with minister ER and he is sitting on his hands regarding this critical infrastructure.

Whatever about the LNG- it’s the CNG storage I’m interested in.

We should have somewhere to store 90 days of NG in case something were to happen with the Moffat supply.

Corrib only supplies at most 30% of gas needs and dwindling.

Interconnectors are not with much if there is nothing there when you need it. They only interconnector that is keeping the light on here is the gas interconnector with Moffat hoping that the Norwegians don`t ration output or the U.K. doesn`t run short and decide to help themselves. If we were depending on renewables via an interconnector these day, no matter how many we were connected, too we would be spending a lot of time in the dark.

I presume the on shore storage you refer to is hydrogen. For any proposed solution to a problem to work it has number 1 to be financially viable, and number 2, capable of operating to scale to solve the problem. Right now I have seen nothing to even suggest hydrogen is a financially viable solution nor anything detailing how it would operate to scale.

You can get to a level now where wind energy will provide a certain percentage of your needs. 2020 that was 42%, last year it dropped to 35%, and from the figures for the first 11 months of this year it looks as if it would do well to remain at 35%, but for an intermittent unreliable source like wind percentages mean nothing. You can add all the turbines you like, but when the wind does not blow it does not blow, and unless we bite the bullet and consider nuclear I`m afraid fossil fuels are going to be around for a very long time to come.

Not the case, they are afraid to say no but if they keep saying maybe but first tell me more, well then the developer my go elsewhere and the project dies.