Where great at talking about stuff we can achieve, but when it comes to actually doing it….
if we could harness the bullshit that comes out of Eamon Ryan we could power half of Europe for the next 100 years.
I think the people dismissing this statement need to:
1. Read what he actually said, rather than the headline.
2. Check out the pipeline of solar projects coming from the RESS auctions.
They are very confident that this will happen, in fact they are preparing to sell our excess electricity.
I’m sure that’s a valid statement for parts of the day, but 24×7, not a hope without huge battery capacity.
Well I hope we diversify our renewables and don’t put everything in one basket, the wind projects seem to be a success.
The headline is deliberately misleading. He actually says
>What that means is that by 2025 there will be sunny afternoons when we are generating enough solar electricity to power the entire country
As with every project ever mooted in Ireland I’m in the “I’ll believe it when I see it” camp when it comes to the claim we’ll have 5000MW installed by 2025, it would obviously be great if we achieved it and I am happy with the ambition. Can we please get a move on with offshore wind as well.
Absolute gibbon so he is
Jeez, they must be going to put solar panels on the rooves of all of those houses they are going to build. Joined up thinking eh!
What about storage? We need to store energy at scale if this is going to work….
I really hope it will be done with brains, not what Poland did.
Actually if we put 30kW rated panels on one million buildings, put a station battery in each of those houses and connect them in microgrids it will be enough to cover most domestic requirements for electricity, reducing the load on the main grid itself. And it’s actually cheaper than building a power plant of similar output. Adding wind energy generation and we could go almost 100% renewable.
Quick calculations:
30kW rated panels for 1 million houses:
Wholesale price is 25 cents per W (whole panels, delivered to the port of destination).
That’s 7.5bn
5kWh cells per 2k
2bn
Inverters with MPP and charging
500 each
So the whole project would be in a ballpark of 12bn including microgrids at local level.
The big issue that no one is really addressing is that the grid isn’t really set up to handle all the new renewable energy coming online. Eirgrid have done some upgrades but it’s nowhere near enough.
In the race for generation, transmission has been forgotten by many.
Edit: what’s the downvoting for ?!? It’s a fact, Eirgrid have a blueprint/roadmap for the necessary upgrades but nothing has actually happened yet. It’ll take a big push to actually get it delivered by 2030.
Im going to screenshot this and have a good laugh in 2025 when we still generate the exact same amount of energy via solar
I believe it’s possible. I don’t believe this government will achieve it.
I have PV and battery storage. It’s fantastic and over the 12 months of the year 70-80% of my usage is from PV or from the battery (which is charged by PV). Several months go by where I pull next to nothing from the grid and all I pay for is the standing charge.
Why I still see new housing developments without PV boggles my mind. It should be a default on new builds. It should be baked into the planning permission requirements and also the orientation of the house should be considered so that we try an maximise the amount of houses that south facing roof areas.
“The Green Party is proud to be the antidote to such populism”
Honestly there’s so many measure the greens forced over the line that no other party would have done but they will never get credit for it.
The biggest win was the climate emissions targets for each sector. Even though we didn’t get what we really needed from the Ag sector.
It would be interesting to know if he is referring to nameplate capacity or if capacity factor been factored in ? If not, then the 5000MW of solar power he is talking about is just 600MW per annum, assuming a capacity factor of 12% (which is what Bavaria works out to).
There’s a weather joke in that headline somewhere
Does that mean electricity will be cheaper? Wind is free.
Finally we’re getting a second sun installed
Yeah right.
Cap
With those coastal winds why not wind turbines?
Great, then we can dispense with the Greens and vote them out once and for all
So thats why they’re building all those wind farms. To blow the clouds out of the way.
Will the electricity bills be lower in price probably not so what difference does it make to the average person
Horseshit guy is a tool.
Yeah and i bet you we’ll be charged the skin of our arses for it
In the article he stated…
“Last month, wind energy provided nearly half of all electricity in Ireland, driving down the cost of energy, he said.”
Is this actually true?
What he means is it will be sold off for a board seat or two to the right ministers and the people will be screwed with high prices again. Thanks lads….
He must be on some proper weed to think that.
We need to bite the bullet and go nuclear
God this guy makes me want to set giant tyre fires
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We will in me hole.
Where great at talking about stuff we can achieve, but when it comes to actually doing it….
if we could harness the bullshit that comes out of Eamon Ryan we could power half of Europe for the next 100 years.
I think the people dismissing this statement need to:
1. Read what he actually said, rather than the headline.
2. Check out the pipeline of solar projects coming from the RESS auctions.
They are very confident that this will happen, in fact they are preparing to sell our excess electricity.
I’m sure that’s a valid statement for parts of the day, but 24×7, not a hope without huge battery capacity.
Well I hope we diversify our renewables and don’t put everything in one basket, the wind projects seem to be a success.
The headline is deliberately misleading. He actually says
>What that means is that by 2025 there will be sunny afternoons when we are generating enough solar electricity to power the entire country
As with every project ever mooted in Ireland I’m in the “I’ll believe it when I see it” camp when it comes to the claim we’ll have 5000MW installed by 2025, it would obviously be great if we achieved it and I am happy with the ambition. Can we please get a move on with offshore wind as well.
Absolute gibbon so he is
Jeez, they must be going to put solar panels on the rooves of all of those houses they are going to build. Joined up thinking eh!
What about storage? We need to store energy at scale if this is going to work….
I really hope it will be done with brains, not what Poland did.
Actually if we put 30kW rated panels on one million buildings, put a station battery in each of those houses and connect them in microgrids it will be enough to cover most domestic requirements for electricity, reducing the load on the main grid itself. And it’s actually cheaper than building a power plant of similar output. Adding wind energy generation and we could go almost 100% renewable.
Quick calculations:
30kW rated panels for 1 million houses:
Wholesale price is 25 cents per W (whole panels, delivered to the port of destination).
That’s 7.5bn
5kWh cells per 2k
2bn
Inverters with MPP and charging
500 each
So the whole project would be in a ballpark of 12bn including microgrids at local level.
The big issue that no one is really addressing is that the grid isn’t really set up to handle all the new renewable energy coming online. Eirgrid have done some upgrades but it’s nowhere near enough.
In the race for generation, transmission has been forgotten by many.
Edit: what’s the downvoting for ?!? It’s a fact, Eirgrid have a blueprint/roadmap for the necessary upgrades but nothing has actually happened yet. It’ll take a big push to actually get it delivered by 2030.
Im going to screenshot this and have a good laugh in 2025 when we still generate the exact same amount of energy via solar
I believe it’s possible. I don’t believe this government will achieve it.
I have PV and battery storage. It’s fantastic and over the 12 months of the year 70-80% of my usage is from PV or from the battery (which is charged by PV). Several months go by where I pull next to nothing from the grid and all I pay for is the standing charge.
Why I still see new housing developments without PV boggles my mind. It should be a default on new builds. It should be baked into the planning permission requirements and also the orientation of the house should be considered so that we try an maximise the amount of houses that south facing roof areas.
“The Green Party is proud to be the antidote to such populism”
Honestly there’s so many measure the greens forced over the line that no other party would have done but they will never get credit for it.
The biggest win was the climate emissions targets for each sector. Even though we didn’t get what we really needed from the Ag sector.
It would be interesting to know if he is referring to nameplate capacity or if capacity factor been factored in ? If not, then the 5000MW of solar power he is talking about is just 600MW per annum, assuming a capacity factor of 12% (which is what Bavaria works out to).
There’s a weather joke in that headline somewhere
Does that mean electricity will be cheaper? Wind is free.
Finally we’re getting a second sun installed
Yeah right.
Cap
With those coastal winds why not wind turbines?
Great, then we can dispense with the Greens and vote them out once and for all
So thats why they’re building all those wind farms. To blow the clouds out of the way.
Will the electricity bills be lower in price probably not so what difference does it make to the average person
Horseshit guy is a tool.
Yeah and i bet you we’ll be charged the skin of our arses for it
In the article he stated…
“Last month, wind energy provided nearly half of all electricity in Ireland, driving down the cost of energy, he said.”
Is this actually true?
What he means is it will be sold off for a board seat or two to the right ministers and the people will be screwed with high prices again. Thanks lads….
He must be on some proper weed to think that.
We need to bite the bullet and go nuclear
God this guy makes me want to set giant tyre fires