"Green" policies are destroying this country

Have you got around yet to comparing the cost of that €11 Billion Finland paid for nuclear to provide 15% of their electricity (figures you yourself posted I believe as being outrageously expensive) and the €200 Billion plus cost of this 30GW offshore plan alone which would not include any onshore wind or solar costs, or is it just something else you would like to ignore ?

To go alongside their nuclear. It's almost like they built the backup systems first isn't it. Crafty hoors

So it has lost all its teeth and that's even before the Parliament has overcome its major differences in reaching a consensus.

This will end as a hollow desktop exercise, left to the mandarins and the spin doctors to try and pick some successes out of it.

That slap on the hand might teach the Commission to stop overreaching on certain matters.

LOL Stick to the link dumping gig, as a conman out in the real world you would starve.

I can never figure out what these mysterios loops of yours are. That is other than you coming up with the phrase every time you are confronted with inconvenient facts and figure, which really just means they are nothing other than bluster.

It`s hilarious now seeing you go even further and bring them up for facts and figures you yourself posted.😅

Rather than running attempting to hide under the bed yet again, is it not clear that you really got your jib at Finland`s latest nuclear power plant as being crazily expensive completely arsewise, where for the equilavent cost we could provide close to 45% of our needs rather than a lunatic offshore+ hydrogen plan would cost north of €200 Billion. Over 20 times the cost for this mythical 100%, and that without the cost of onshore or solar included ?

Man up for once and stand over your own post

You really are caught in some kind of a loop alright.

That reply has nothing to do with what you were asked.

I`ll simplify for you.

In light of your own post on Finland`s latest nuclear generation power plant providing 15% or their electricity for a cost of €11 Billion, isn`t the 30GW offshore + hydrogen plan that will cost over €200 Billion alone, not including all the onshore and solar, economically bonkers even for numerically illiterate greens ?

You won't need to worry and being proven wrong. It's guaranteed to be very light on specifics.

Irish government will not want to lose the golden goose (i.e. MNC tax revenue), The likes of Intel and other MNCs are forward looking, and energy availability and costs matter.

The energy costs feeds into inflation and a shortage of vegetables has become a problem, with a combination business failures, operating costs, weather and Brexit affecting production in this country.

Field vegetable production area estimated to decrease by 7% in 2023

A surprising factoid I learned from the presentation by David Horgan is that in South Africa the unreliable electricity grid has created a shortage of anti-venom. Mr. Horgan has experience in mineral extraction having worked for Kenmare Resources and Clontarf energy. He outlines how investment in reliable supplies is now falling well short of societal needs, example how an NGO that is an arm of the Green party, An Taisce, held up investment by Tirlán (formely Glanbia) costing the company €104 million.

There isn't 600MW of battery, some no longer exist and of what does, the longest has 25 minutes of storage. That'll save the square root of 1 sod of turf.

The effect is cumulative, there is a cost to balancing the grid that ultimately must be paid when we get our electricity bills. In addition "demand management units" must curtail production and/or fall back on their reserve generators. that has a cost to them. The more frequent these alerts become the more loss of confidence in the grid system increases and it affects future investment decisions which eventually translates into effect on employment. There is no cheap fix to this.

What happened in December 2022 should have been headline news, the failure of both wind, and solar, freezing conditions and all time record energy demand. The Irish wind energy association (IWEA) and Irish solar energy association (ISEA) issue press releases to "environmental churnalists" when the wind blows or sun shines. There were adverts running to tell domestic consumers to use heavy consumption devices (hair driers) when the wind is blowing, the signalling is there to tell us consumers the grid is maxxed out. Unsurprisingly given their focus, the Sunday Business Post is the the only media outlet in Ireland that often calls into question the competence of Eirgrids management on their failure to deliver projects.