"Green" policies are destroying this country

Not sure if it's gone live just yet but it was supposed to back in October I believe.

Eirgrid are looking to increase SNSP again this year and also reduce the inertia on the system from 23GWs to 20GWs. It's going to be very interesting to see the effects on the grid of reducing this inertia. My own take it that we may be near the limit already of the amount of inertia they can take off the system before starting to effect the entire grids power quality.

None of this is how RESS works or reflects how wind generators bid into the day-ahead market and are settled in the balancing market. Wind farms have a marginal cost per MWh of zero. They typically bid in at around zero for that reason. Unsurprisingly they are reluctant to operate if the price is negative.

The reason France can have lots of massive nuclear plants is because no one plant ever accounts for more than ten percent of the grid’s demand.

You have made your point that you are angry about wind, especially offshore wind.

It’s percentage of the trough demand, not the peak demand. Do you even read what I write?

Nevermind the hot air and wishful thinking, it is the amount of shyte they come out with that is the goldmine.

Also we are concentrating on green environmental policies, but whatabout their open borders policies as advanced by green minister and second halfwit in chief Roddy O'Gormless.

The laugh is they want to increae population drastically at same time as cut emissions.

Fooking halfwits that shouldn't be let within a million miles of organising a parish sale or work nevermind setting government policy.

What are you on about now. Do you even know how the marginal pricing policy operates.

Wind farms, regardless of their cost per MWh, do not have to bid a price for the day-ahead market under the marginal pricing policy. They are offered first bid as to the volume they can supply for that market, and at the end of the day are paid the same rate as the most expensive fossil fuel component in the generated mix. Even if that fossil fuel component only supplies a tiny proportion. If wind farms have a marginal cost per MWh of zero as you say, then is it not surprising that recently in the U.K. some shut down when the wholesale price was high. At a marginal cost to them of zero, then you would imagine there would have still been money in it for them. Unless that is their marginal costs aren`t the zero you believe them to be.

With our demand set to rise, especially with all these 400,000 heat pumps, 1 million EV`s and all the other electrical guzzling addition greens talk about, then what is to prevent Ireland using small reactor plants. Especially with your contention that a sudden 10% drop off in demand generation would result in our grid imploding when we know that there was double that drop off (20% of demand at the time) and our grid was just fine.

Not in the slightest bit angry about wind in any form. More a case of being feed up listening to posters who believe themselves experts in any other alternatives to this offshore idea, where they can quote chapter and verse on such alternatives while mysteriously not one of them can even give the most basic answers to their so called plan. The cost.

As I said before, if you cannot give a cost then you do not have a plan. You have a wish list that you are attempting to sell as a pig in a poke.

Ah, you are talking about the old market arrangements. Under the new arrangements (i-SEM since 2018) things are quite different. Wind generators don’t absolutely have to bid in but they could find themselves in trouble if they don’t, because the balancing price could go negative on a windy day and they would find themselves being penalized for high production if they have not bid in in advance. Curtailment payments also require the wind generator to have bid in in advance as far as I remember.

Again, let people who don't like "yellow-pack" estates as you call them, and selfishly want a 3,000 sq. ft. McMansion on half an acre go off and build in the countryside, but then tax them for the increased costs of healthcare, education, postal services, etc., and don't exempt them from rules on private car ownership. They can have the right to do it, but the responsibility to pay for it.

There are significant grants for renovating houses in towns and villages and many available cheaply, so there are options within the limits of existing towns and villages.