Energy infrastructure

This is a thread about energy infrastructure, no?

All I did was point out that the electrical system every home, business and generator is connected to does not end at our borders anymore. Whether it's distribution grid, transmission grid or super grid, matters not one jot. We're part of the European grid unless our interconnectors are on outage.

Discussing a car and motorways is not a similar analogy. In the same way that a generator and circuits are not the same thing. A motorway and dual carriageway being part of the road network would be closer.

But I suppose it distracts from acknowledging the inaccuracies in your post about HVDC capabilities and inertia.

Actually, the bit I don't get is why bother with the hydrogen method to make the iron in the first place , ?

You could make iron anywhere ,say in the pilbarra in Australia,because the mines ,railways ,ports ,are already there , or china because they already have iron plants , turn it from ore into iron by any efficient method, ,, ship the iron really really cheaply to wherever you need energy - say Europe , and convert it back to iron oxide releasing the hydrogen ,( + heat ?) to make electricity , then ship the iron oxide back to wherever it could be reconverted to iron cheapest , probably using the same ships and ports ,

Effectively it'd be an iron and iron oxide economy , not necessarily à green energy economy,

Not our infrastructure, but last year's auction disaster is often referenced on this thread.

In the most recent auction 10GW of capacity was agreed for various projects, although according to the article, the UK will need double that to hit their 2030 targets.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/article/2024/sep/03/renewable-energy-auction-windfarms-tidal-power

The average electricity usage for Irish homes is 4500 kWh. Armed with that figure, you can go and find out if your “usually” claim is true or not.

We need fossil fuels for the foreseeable, until grid scale storage for extended periods of time becomes a thing.
Maybe that’s green hydrogen, maybe it’s not.

2 GWh of capacity coming down the tracks.

The average solar strike price was 15% more than wind.

Almost all wind proposals were accepted, but 500MWh of solar was unsuccessful for reasons unknown.

https://cms.eirgrid.ie/sites/default/files/publications/RESS_4_Provisional_Auction_Results_%28R4PAR%29.pdf

https://www.rte.ie/news/business/2024/0909/1469229-state-completes-latest-renewable-energy-auction/

Also 40% of electricity in August came from renewables.

https://www.rte.ie/news/business/2024/0909/1469084-wind-energy-ireland-report/

The UK grid says goodbye to coal today.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/sep/30/end-of-an-era-as-britains-last-coal-fired-power-plant-shuts-down

Astonishing stat from that article: Coal power made up 80% of the UK’s electricity in the early 1980s

Shannon LNG Terminal to go back to ABP after High Court finds refusal was invalid.

https://www.rte.ie/news/courts/2024/0930/1472782-kerry-shannon-lng/

How much would it cost p/a to keep money point on the system, as emergency cover , I know it takes a couple of days to bring up to power from cold ,

The synchoniser doesn't require generation on site, and it wouldn't have been fed from the coal generation anyway, as coal is very much a steady-state source.

The synchronous condenser is basically an enormous flywheel for the grid: fluctuating amounts of wind energy go in, steady, if slightly lower, levels of power come out.