Energy infrastructure

You can buy LNG, have it delivered to a UK LNG degasification plant and have it shipped to Ireland. There is a rate card for this. In practice it may make more sense to sell your cheaply obtained LNG gas at a profit in England and buy gas that is already in Scotland to ship to Ireland but that is neither here nor there.

Are you sure about this.

According to an Eirgrid itinerary (I posted this on a different thread a while ago) generators that are capable of burning both are classed as NG/DO (natural gas/distillate oil).

Not all NG generators are NG/DO in that doc.

That schedule is not comprehensive if you look up information about the individual generating stations.

There are obligations on gas generators, ie https://cruie-live-96ca64acab2247eca8a850a7e54b-5b34f62.divio-media.com/documents/CER15213-Review-of-Fuel-Stock-Obligations.pdf

So is there a plan to use corrib as a gas storage facility as corrib sown gas runs out?

I haven’t heard anything about this but it would be a great idea alright.

With the Russians actively surveying everything on the sea floor in Europe related to energy infrastructure and telecoms, including off the Irish coast very recently, anyone who thinks there would be an the time or opportunity to build or add storage is delusional if sea-floor infrastructure failed suddenly. ABP and the way it operates means you don't 'just' anything in this country.

A submarine fibre cable to the Shetlands was recently cut in two places. How a fishing vessel managed to be in two places at the same time wasn't part of the official explanation.

Sinking LNG ships would be an outright act of war, whereas mysterious explosions on the sea floor that interupt vital infrastructure wouldn't as there is next to no way to prove attribution, as has been proved with the Nodstream explosions.

The Russians are unlikely to bother with starting WW3 by messing with on-shore infrastructure or shipping. You can't speed up wind or solar without getting rid of ABP, which I am all for.

Got to laugh when Irish natives talk of speeding up infrastructure deployment. Only places like Australia can do that. One year from a statewide blackout in South Australia to them switching on the worlds largest grid connected battery. You'd be lucky to manage it in one decade here.

Why do you copy paste quote instead of clicking the quote post button?

OT but I use the web version on the mobile and when wanting to quote part of a post I do like so. There is symbol to the left of the text box and if you click on it, it gives the option to insert a quoted/copied section

I'm still ify about solar for ireland , its a private enterprise , that get a subvention only for power produced , which is fine

But all of the schemes are fixed panels (i assume orientated south ) with no battery storage - so obviously mid day - mid summer is peak production - no incentive to try spread electricity production over a summers day , which mid-summer is 18ish hours long ...

Or does the amounts of solar power being proposed for the grid not really make a difference?

Could be wrong here but some of this could come down to gustyness of the wind as the generators aren't able to convert gusts into power effectively, so while on a spreadsheet you'd have met.ie forecasting winds of 45kmph and Eirgrid calculate off that speed, the gusty nature of that wind would mean that the blades are either inhibited or can't spin-up in that type of air flow.