Nah, it’s on all the time. Just not hooked to the grid, but to solar excess. Mmmmm, sweet sweet free hot water.
Ha. Take that Denmark!
F̶r̶a̶n̶c̶e̶ Celtic Interconnector and more renewables can’t come quick enough.
So much of our power generation from gas, we will always be at the behest of global supply chain.
How, is this being alowed to happen?
Again, asked this earlier but no reply.
Why are we paying the most?
Have the usual suspects tried blaming the war yet? Because the price rises occurred in 2025 according todays rte news and next year we be even dearer
Well I’m paying 24c per kWh, so I’m paying below the EU average.
I’ve no idea who is paying 40c per kWh, you would be mad to paying such a high price, lots of companies offering much cheaper deals.
40 cent per kWh is a good bit more than I pay. At peak I pay 30 cent, normal day rate is 26 cent and night rate is 14. All including VAT.
Standing charge on top of that.
Email your TDs right now and ask what they’re doing to advance on and off shore wind projects. Ask them what they’re doing to increase grants for solar PV and EV grants. France passed a law three years ago requiring shops with car parks to add solar canopies. There’s already a zero emissions heavy vehicle grant and as far as I can tell hauliers, waste companies, builders, etc aren’t taking advantage of this. So ask them what they’re going to do to get them to switch since a rather juicy carrot hasn’t convinced them.
Far right anti-renewable people make a lot of noise. It’s time the rest of us make noise too.
There are so many things which our government could do, but instead they are choosing to do little to nothing.
•Reform State-Owned ESB from a for-profit into a non-profit, with the aim of reducing prices as much as possible for all. They have been making about €600-800m profit annually over the past few years, with that money being given to the government. Imagine if that money was instead kept in local economics, benefitting workers, carers and local businesses (making many more businesses viable and helping to protect the high-street). What’s more, this would force private competitors to also reduce their prices in order to compete, saving hundreds of millions more for everyday people in Ireland.
•Implement an energy price cap, like the UK does. The previous government decisions to provide energy credits (like the UK) but without any energy price cap just causes prices to increase, and effectively acts as public money being transferred into private profits. It’s the exact same as HAP without a rent cap and Help To Buy without a house price cap. Energy credits should only be provided if a maximum price is set by government as in the UK and other countries, in order to stop profiteering and inflationary effects.
•Push the EU Commission to reform the energy market so that the price of renewables isn’t set by the price of oil/gas (whichever is higher). This current system just ensures maximised profits for energy generators, instead of lower prices for consumers, in order to ‘incetivise’ private for-profit companies to build more renewables with guaranteed huge profits, and is costing European residents huge sums of money. The cheaper cost of renewable energy generation should be directly reducing energy bills, but it is currently only slowly indirectly reducing them as demand for gas and oil goes down.
•Produce and implement an ambitious national decarbonisation (electrification and renewable generation) plan. Like in most things, we are badly lagging behind most other EU countries in this, and we urgently need to take advantage of our wind potential asap. There is currently an exclusive focus on off-shore wind, but Scotland a number of years ago already achieved 100% renewable generation with mostly on-shore, and we should be building capacity in every way which is affordable – solar, onshore wind, offshore wind, hydropower, interconnectors to other EU states, and hydro pump storage (I’ve excluded nuclear because it is way more expensive than renewables and would take 10-20 years to even get started at this stage, plus long-term safety and storage concerns). Any local community opposition can be reduced by ensuring that communities are included in the process from day 1 (instead of a planning system which only asks for objections at the final stage, ensuring opposition) and by creating Renewable Energy Cooperatives owned by local communities, ensuring that the benefits of decarbonisation are directly felt by affected communities. Our government also needs to urgently implement electrification with heat pumps, electric cars, and electrification of our railways. We are once again lagging behind much of Europe in all of this.
•Only allow data centres planning permission if at least 110% of energy needs is provided by on-site renewables, ensuring that at least a tiny portion of the huge profits of these companies is used to actively add to our national renewable energy capacity, with energy flowing back into the grid to help reduce prices.
Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael will insist their hands are tied and there’s not much that they can do apart from some tax cut, but that is a lie. We have the most expensive electricity **because** of the poltiical decisions which they have made.
In before all of the stupid people who believe the kwh price is the total of the bill…. Its so tiring.. The guy with his price speadsheet will be here soon.
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Nah, it’s on all the time. Just not hooked to the grid, but to solar excess. Mmmmm, sweet sweet free hot water.
Ha. Take that Denmark!
F̶r̶a̶n̶c̶e̶ Celtic Interconnector and more renewables can’t come quick enough.
So much of our power generation from gas, we will always be at the behest of global supply chain.
How, is this being alowed to happen?
Again, asked this earlier but no reply.
Why are we paying the most?
Have the usual suspects tried blaming the war yet? Because the price rises occurred in 2025 according todays rte news and next year we be even dearer
Well I’m paying 24c per kWh, so I’m paying below the EU average.
I’ve no idea who is paying 40c per kWh, you would be mad to paying such a high price, lots of companies offering much cheaper deals.
40 cent per kWh is a good bit more than I pay. At peak I pay 30 cent, normal day rate is 26 cent and night rate is 14. All including VAT.
Standing charge on top of that.
Email your TDs right now and ask what they’re doing to advance on and off shore wind projects. Ask them what they’re doing to increase grants for solar PV and EV grants. France passed a law three years ago requiring shops with car parks to add solar canopies. There’s already a zero emissions heavy vehicle grant and as far as I can tell hauliers, waste companies, builders, etc aren’t taking advantage of this. So ask them what they’re going to do to get them to switch since a rather juicy carrot hasn’t convinced them.
Far right anti-renewable people make a lot of noise. It’s time the rest of us make noise too.
There are so many things which our government could do, but instead they are choosing to do little to nothing.
•Reform State-Owned ESB from a for-profit into a non-profit, with the aim of reducing prices as much as possible for all. They have been making about €600-800m profit annually over the past few years, with that money being given to the government. Imagine if that money was instead kept in local economics, benefitting workers, carers and local businesses (making many more businesses viable and helping to protect the high-street). What’s more, this would force private competitors to also reduce their prices in order to compete, saving hundreds of millions more for everyday people in Ireland.
•Implement an energy price cap, like the UK does. The previous government decisions to provide energy credits (like the UK) but without any energy price cap just causes prices to increase, and effectively acts as public money being transferred into private profits. It’s the exact same as HAP without a rent cap and Help To Buy without a house price cap. Energy credits should only be provided if a maximum price is set by government as in the UK and other countries, in order to stop profiteering and inflationary effects.
•Push the EU Commission to reform the energy market so that the price of renewables isn’t set by the price of oil/gas (whichever is higher). This current system just ensures maximised profits for energy generators, instead of lower prices for consumers, in order to ‘incetivise’ private for-profit companies to build more renewables with guaranteed huge profits, and is costing European residents huge sums of money. The cheaper cost of renewable energy generation should be directly reducing energy bills, but it is currently only slowly indirectly reducing them as demand for gas and oil goes down.
•Produce and implement an ambitious national decarbonisation (electrification and renewable generation) plan. Like in most things, we are badly lagging behind most other EU countries in this, and we urgently need to take advantage of our wind potential asap. There is currently an exclusive focus on off-shore wind, but Scotland a number of years ago already achieved 100% renewable generation with mostly on-shore, and we should be building capacity in every way which is affordable – solar, onshore wind, offshore wind, hydropower, interconnectors to other EU states, and hydro pump storage (I’ve excluded nuclear because it is way more expensive than renewables and would take 10-20 years to even get started at this stage, plus long-term safety and storage concerns). Any local community opposition can be reduced by ensuring that communities are included in the process from day 1 (instead of a planning system which only asks for objections at the final stage, ensuring opposition) and by creating Renewable Energy Cooperatives owned by local communities, ensuring that the benefits of decarbonisation are directly felt by affected communities. Our government also needs to urgently implement electrification with heat pumps, electric cars, and electrification of our railways. We are once again lagging behind much of Europe in all of this.
•Only allow data centres planning permission if at least 110% of energy needs is provided by on-site renewables, ensuring that at least a tiny portion of the huge profits of these companies is used to actively add to our national renewable energy capacity, with energy flowing back into the grid to help reduce prices.
Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael will insist their hands are tied and there’s not much that they can do apart from some tax cut, but that is a lie. We have the most expensive electricity **because** of the poltiical decisions which they have made.
In before all of the stupid people who believe the kwh price is the total of the bill…. Its so tiring.. The guy with his price speadsheet will be here soon.
You can’t put a magnet on a smart meter.
What is Malta doing that Ireland is not?