"Green" policies are destroying this country

First of all, it's not 'deciding when you can charge' or heat your home. It's allowing the grid operators to put conditions that allow grid operators to limit the bandwidth to certain devices when there is acute shortages in the grid. The limits are set to throttle excessive use during times of shortages, but the limits are set at reasonable levels that will only affect especially heavy users at times of acute shortages.

This is a sensible compromise that gets rid of the excuse that the grid operators are using to delay facilitating new connections to the grid.

What will the future grid look like? With more and more new BEVs supporting V2G, having BEVs connected to the grid will serve as a really useful buffer and will reduce the requirement to curtail electricity. For those who aren't connected to the grid, smart charging will be ubiquitous, BEV owners will be able to charge their cars for much cheaper when there is a surplus of electricity (any time it's windy at night, wind power is currently curtailed, as BEVs become more widespread and smart chargers proliferate, this wasted capacity will be used to charge BEVs

Then we will have millions of BEVs from commuters coming home from work, in time for the peak power demand in evenings, plugging in their almost full BEV to the charger, and many of them, supplying energy to the grid when it's most in demand, and then recharging that battery at night when the energy would have been wasted and the tariff is cheaper....

Fast charging is the issue with battery lifespan. Also going from 0% to 100%.

In reality on V2G you are going to see very little degradation because I expect the parameters will be set to use once between 20-80%.

Netherlands for one already have projects based on this concept so I would expect the full facts will be available soon and that would speed up the process.

Rather than waving around Ryan`s latest waffle why not do at least a little research or even read back through this thread.

As has been posted here many times November 2021 The Good Information Project/Think Ireland did just that.

A survey of 1,200 people on the question "Should Ireland build a nuclear power station to increse clean energy supplies" found a 50/50 split. 43% yes 43% no with the remainder unsure. In the 18 -24 year age group 60% said yes. If you are looking for a political party supporting nuclear then from that survey it should be the greens as that is the age group it garnered the highest percentage of its vote from in the last general election.

You can poll it and vote for it and campaign as much as you want but as things stand there is no technological way to even begin to do it, at least not economically.

Solar PV.

You can provide us all with your feedback and a view of the TCO you done up before the purchase

I love it when people accuse me of 'Waffle'

It usually means they haven't any good argument against what I have just said

The car batteries won't be damaged from V2G

They're more likely to be damaged by keeping them topped up at 100% almost all of the time

And nobody can possibly have V2G enabled without their consent. It would be entirely optional

Poorly researched it sounds like to me.

Every person you talk to says to get 3 quotes which is doesn't sound like you did.

FiT was always something that might happen, plus it is variable so you should never have put a TCO based on FiT.

Unlike me you done poor research, didn't know what you would be buying, hadn't figured out the payback period and I would expect if you only got one quote massively overpaid for the installation.

You shouldn't try slate a technology due to your own poor judgement and especially try to tell other people who had the cop on to research it properly they made the same silly mistakes you made.

If you couldn't buy a solar PV system I wouldn't be recommending you to start looking at stocks

Your power supply can be 'fiddled with remotely' right now if the grid operator needed to.

Your power can be shut off at any time if the grid operator decides it needs to for safety or maintenance purposes

Your Power can be shut off at any time if your Utility decides you have not paid your bill

The Grid operators can enact 'rolling brownouts' against whole sectors of the grid if they need to for balancing or frequency regulation right now if they needed to

What is being proposed in germany, is that grid operators could target these measures to first restrict energy bandwidth in a more managed way rather than the blunt instruments that they currently have recourse to

Interestingly, In 2022, Germans had an average power outage of 12 minutes for the entire year

Meanwhile, in France, the energy regulators were very close to having to initiate rolling power cuts due to having so many nuclear power stations offline for repairs last year. (they initialised 'voluntary measures' https://www.euronews.com/2022/10/06/france-launches-sobriety-energy-savings-drive-to-avoid-winter-power-cuts rather than forced power restrictions)

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-11-09/france-can-avoid-power-cuts-with-sobriety-regulator-says

Source for this 26 billions to build in Ireland?

It is a Irish government department document.

"slow learners"

The result show people will go nuclear, I am not arguing against that. I have said I have no issue with nuclear once its 200km away from me. As I said if you want a proper survey ask the same people if they want nuclear in their county. You lready know the answer to this and that's why you keep pushing the same survey as some sort of proof. Again "slow learners"?

Also as pointed out to you multiple times, not a single party in Ireland is running on the basis of building nuclear. You seemed to think Sinn Fein wouldn;t follow the trajectory of the Green party till I pointed out the document that they would increase the rollout to renewables, Again "slow learners"?

You also spent a number of days telling everyone that Ireland would only use "wind, hydro, solar" in the future even after been pointed out to you multiple times this was not the case. Again ....you can guess it....."slow learners"?

For someone that has spent years at this stage posting on this thread, a lot of what I can see is comments like "slow learners" to other posters you don't seem to know a lot about the topic. Especially you seem to have no idea about any of the political parties and what their plans are in terms of Green policies. most of the posts are just a tirade against the Green Party which is amusing.

Now I'm sure you will find some silly document you found on google about Germany or Denmark or Timbuktu. None of which are relevant to Ireland or Green Policies in Ireland and think it is somehow relevant while telling everyone an actual government document released by a government department in Ireland is "waffle". To me? well only one of those things is waffle. im sure you can connect the dots on which one it is.

Technically it`s not alchemy or some form of withcraft, and as far as economics go even by the yardstick of Finland`s latest nuclear power plant that was over budget, it is still multiples cheaper than this offshore wind/hydrogen plan for the offshore part alone, and even more multiples cheaper than the recently open UAE plant. And that is before the cost of offhore went through the roof.

With nuclear no need for hydrogen, and the consummer would only be paying for the electricity they use whereas with this offshore plan they would be paying double (because half the generation would go to hydrogen) plus the cost of the hydrogen production, distribution and desalination plants that would be required. As well as the expense of the offshore section being gutted and replaced at least twice within the lifetime of a nuclear plant.

Lol.

Hinckley C is currently running at 35 billion for 3.5gw, just for construction before a single watt of energy is generated, plus operating costs and tens of billions extra to decommission the plant when it's finished in a few decades time, storage and transport of nuclear waste....

Plus all the backup facilities that we'll still need to build