Hard to imagine why so many are against it, I mean what’s the alternative..
And there’s a windfarm in Connaught being removed at the moment because it didn’t have proper planning, and had some construction mistakes – rather than fixing it and sorting out the habitat around it, they’re just removing it. 70 turbines, gone.
Yet electricity unit prices are still set by the gas price
that was for one day. If you read the rest of the info in the link all renewables combined account for way less than half our energy needs. Problem with wind is it’s unreliable. this is obviously from a windy day
Fantastic
And it’s gonna be more! West coast is getting some proper development
Isn’t our electricity rates tied to gas prices for some reason? So we likely don’t see any price reductions
Wind is great but I think we’re living in cloud cuckoo land on energy policy and planning here. There’s something seriously up with how we do things when we can’t even get off shore wind investments to go though. Two of the big proposals so far have lost international investors at the half way point.
Imagine not being dependent on foreign powers for our energy.
The more we build the cheaper energy becomes which benefits the economy.
Of course we should augment the grid with solar, anerobic gas, hydro…
Yes, I have in fact been eating beans this last week!
Yeah, so why the fuck are we being charged more due to the war in Ukraine? Seriously though, can someone explain, because I feel stupid not understanding the cause/effect.
Very frustrating that we have already paid for all these wind farms through RESS and now they can still into the market and get unit price of gas. Single electricity market is working a treat
We’ll sure as hell it’s the expensive type of wind blows in Ireland alright 😂😂
That’s great to hear and aren’t EU trying to change the issue where all energy is tied to gas or oil prices ?
Don’t think we can every fully remove fossil fuels from the equation but diversity is needed.
I have recent looked.into getting solar and battery for my home but cost is kinda prohibitive especially when we can’t sell back to the grid.
Be great to have a tiny or no electricity bill
stick the washing up on them turbines and we can kill 2 birds with 1 stone
That’s amazing. The importance of energy security has become even more critical the past few months.
We could make more pumped/gravity reservoirs to store the excess when wind generation is high. Only one in Ireland afaik
Most of it will move offshore now and will be mandated by the EU. So even though we have the nimbys, they are about to get put down. That retrofit project in moneypoint will go ahead as well as the interconnect to france. Im actually positive about it and thank god for the EU dragging us through the process.
If only we had storm conditions everyday 🙄
This country needs to invest in some massive civil engineering projects to build reservoirs, both for water supply security, and for stored energy hydroelectric power stations.
Closer to 23% for the past month on average – which is still pretty good.
The 13% coal is the bad bit. And the 57% gas is the problem.
I don’t see where in the link that’s confirmed?
THEN WHY THE FUCK IS MY ELECTRICITY BILL SO DAMN HIGH, DOES RUSSIA EXPORT IRISH WIND TOO
I produce a good bit of wind myself. Happy to make up the difference. Not sure how good methane wind will work though. 🤔
Yet I still see “No Turbines” signs all over the midlands for some reason.
I don’t understand the reasoning that because we have wind electricity prices shouldn’t rise.
Prices are set by what people are willing to pay (not individuals here but industrial-scale buyers). If you have a street with 2 identical houses for sale, and seller A paid 400k for their house but seller B paid 100k, it’s not like seller B is going to say “oh hey I guess I’ll just make my asking price 300k lower”. They’re going to ask for (roughly) the same price.
The wind is howling like this swirling storm inside.
Raining sideways this morning, so this checks out.
How much is hydro?
And we are paying full whack with no discount.
Go regulators ypu *+@g#!
Go farts 💨
It’s great when the wind blows but we’ve been barely getting any juice from the turbines all summer. There needs to be a green counterbalance to wind, maybe solar.
77% on a very windy day. What about the rest of the time? We need nuclear as a baseload. Time to get rid of the legislation banning it.
WOOOWWW, who would have thought the tail end of a storm could bring wind. Jaysus
So what? It’s still completely unreliable because there’s no storage associated which means we’re reliant on fossil fuels when it’s not windy which means they have to keep running and dumping electricity in case the weather changes etc.
But the price is aligned to fossil fuel’s so we can go fuck ourselves
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Wow! That’s class!
Hard to imagine why so many are against it, I mean what’s the alternative..
And there’s a windfarm in Connaught being removed at the moment because it didn’t have proper planning, and had some construction mistakes – rather than fixing it and sorting out the habitat around it, they’re just removing it. 70 turbines, gone.
https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-40830539.html
Yet electricity unit prices are still set by the gas price
that was for one day. If you read the rest of the info in the link all renewables combined account for way less than half our energy needs. Problem with wind is it’s unreliable. this is obviously from a windy day
Fantastic
And it’s gonna be more! West coast is getting some proper development
Isn’t our electricity rates tied to gas prices for some reason? So we likely don’t see any price reductions
Wind is great but I think we’re living in cloud cuckoo land on energy policy and planning here. There’s something seriously up with how we do things when we can’t even get off shore wind investments to go though. Two of the big proposals so far have lost international investors at the half way point.
Imagine not being dependent on foreign powers for our energy.
The more we build the cheaper energy becomes which benefits the economy.
Of course we should augment the grid with solar, anerobic gas, hydro…
Yes, I have in fact been eating beans this last week!
Yeah, so why the fuck are we being charged more due to the war in Ukraine? Seriously though, can someone explain, because I feel stupid not understanding the cause/effect.
Very frustrating that we have already paid for all these wind farms through RESS and now they can still into the market and get unit price of gas. Single electricity market is working a treat
We’ll sure as hell it’s the expensive type of wind blows in Ireland alright 😂😂
That’s great to hear and aren’t EU trying to change the issue where all energy is tied to gas or oil prices ?
Don’t think we can every fully remove fossil fuels from the equation but diversity is needed.
I have recent looked.into getting solar and battery for my home but cost is kinda prohibitive especially when we can’t sell back to the grid.
Be great to have a tiny or no electricity bill
stick the washing up on them turbines and we can kill 2 birds with 1 stone
That’s amazing. The importance of energy security has become even more critical the past few months.
We could make more pumped/gravity reservoirs to store the excess when wind generation is high. Only one in Ireland afaik
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turlough_Hill_Power_Station
Most of it will move offshore now and will be mandated by the EU. So even though we have the nimbys, they are about to get put down. That retrofit project in moneypoint will go ahead as well as the interconnect to france. Im actually positive about it and thank god for the EU dragging us through the process.
If only we had storm conditions everyday 🙄
This country needs to invest in some massive civil engineering projects to build reservoirs, both for water supply security, and for stored energy hydroelectric power stations.
Closer to 23% for the past month on average – which is still pretty good.
The 13% coal is the bad bit. And the 57% gas is the problem.
I don’t see where in the link that’s confirmed?
THEN WHY THE FUCK IS MY ELECTRICITY BILL SO DAMN HIGH, DOES RUSSIA EXPORT IRISH WIND TOO
I produce a good bit of wind myself. Happy to make up the difference. Not sure how good methane wind will work though. 🤔
Yet I still see “No Turbines” signs all over the midlands for some reason.
I don’t understand the reasoning that because we have wind electricity prices shouldn’t rise.
Prices are set by what people are willing to pay (not individuals here but industrial-scale buyers). If you have a street with 2 identical houses for sale, and seller A paid 400k for their house but seller B paid 100k, it’s not like seller B is going to say “oh hey I guess I’ll just make my asking price 300k lower”. They’re going to ask for (roughly) the same price.
The wind is howling like this swirling storm inside.
Raining sideways this morning, so this checks out.
How much is hydro?
And we are paying full whack with no discount.
Go regulators ypu *+@g#!
Go farts 💨
It’s great when the wind blows but we’ve been barely getting any juice from the turbines all summer. There needs to be a green counterbalance to wind, maybe solar.
77% on a very windy day. What about the rest of the time? We need nuclear as a baseload. Time to get rid of the legislation banning it.
WOOOWWW, who would have thought the tail end of a storm could bring wind. Jaysus
So what? It’s still completely unreliable because there’s no storage associated which means we’re reliant on fossil fuels when it’s not windy which means they have to keep running and dumping electricity in case the weather changes etc.
But the price is aligned to fossil fuel’s so we can go fuck ourselves
So why are our bills so DAMN EXPENSIVE