Energy infrastructure

Oh look, at least one digit looks to soon be extracted:

I'm dying to see the cost, as we will be paying for for every penny, plus profit margin.

That was in 2023. In 2024 they changed their minds.

In November, the government put forward initial figures proposing a
doubling to 18 GW of offshore wind power in 2035 as well as setting out
the annual rate of deployment of solar panels needed to hit 75 GW in
2035, while also aiming for a doubling of onshore wind power capacity to
40 GW in 2035.

Jules Nyssen, president of France’s Renewable Energies Union,
declared himself “stunned” after discovering that renewables targets did
not appear in the draft.

The text promises to make efforts rather than set objectives and uses formulations such as “tending towards a reduction”.

For Anne Bringault, energy transition manager of the Climate Action
Network, “this is an extremely significant step backwards, and totally
inconsistent with European objectives.

“Even if the objectives are raised, we no longer have such a strong commitment to them,” she said.

The draft law also drops targets for reducing energy consumption via renovation of buildings.

I found it and edited my post. That link and the commitmments it contained, was made obsolete in 2024, as were the targets.

Despite a set of fresh new decarbonisation goals published last year,
starting with the progressive phaseout of fossil fuels, France seems
more focused on deploying new nuclear reactors – which will likely cost
more than expected – than making up for the gap between the development
of its clean energy sources and those of other countries in the European
Union.

https://www.cleanenergywire.org/factsheets/clew-guide-france-moves-action-new-climate-plan-green-industry-makeover

All those applications arriving in ABP at the same time doesn't sound like an ideal scenario. Just in time for the summer holliers.

Super-capacitors, hot rocks, sodium ion batteries, flow batteries, molten salt batteries. Put your own money into these, go-on, invest in them and become rich.

It's an argument paralysing load of nonsense because it's all based on hope and wishes and massive amounts of investments at multi decade time scales to bring to any usable fruition, for the occasional tech that manages to work out.

Is Sceirde being installed already?

I'm still firmly of the view that commercial solar PV in ireland is green washing ,

Yes it provides power for 5 or 6 months of the year, but none at peak national demand ( December evenings ) , so there HAS to be a second system to cover that -

I'm not how-ever anti solar , businesses and private homes that produce solar electricity for their own use don't have transmission losses, and are incentivised to change their consumption patterns to use the electricity they produce ,

Also during the summer months, using cheap solar is much cheaper then using expensive gas.

Agree if your statement is about the future and obviously better for the climate/CO2 issues, but if it's about the present, who is it cheaper for?

If there's any gas in the half hour energy mix, then doesn't it cost the same as gas?

Has there been a half hour yet where gas has not been in the mix? I thought we were limited to <90% renewables in the mix at the moment.

Is there a saving to the state by not having to buy carbon credits?

I think the big issue with solar is using high quality ag land in east and south for solar farms.

As climate change causes greater food insecurity and reduces arable land worldwide, it's a bit backwards to be covering otherwise productive land in panels when we have huge swathes of houses, factories and unproductive farmland uncovered

Just a heads up, Ireland farms beef and dairy because much of our land is unsuitable for tillage. It would be challenging to increase our self sufficiency without forcing higher rates of meat and dairy consumption and reducing export of these products.

Thats not to advocate for any farming strategy but just pointing out that a move to more tillage isn't going to happen.