This makes sense given we’re an island nation that refuses to embrace nuclear power.
Imagine if we had enough nuclear power to make electricity ridiculously dirt cheap. BER ratings wouldn’t matter as heating would be close to free. We could build countless data centers and we could have lots of manufacturing.
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Someone has to pay for the yanks AI training and data mining servers. They used a tiny fraction of their wealth finding ways to underdeliver or avoid their development promises to ease their impact on energy consumption.
If the ordinary public wants free to heavily discounted energy prices then they can slide their own brown envelopes in the right directions.
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I know this will be a doom and gloom thread and cheaper electricity would of course be great, but it’s worth contextualising this that we pay €360 more than EU average, but our average salaries are €20,000 more than EU average. The rate of energy poverty in Ireland is less than half the EU average, though we are behind all the Scandinavian countries and a few others.
The quote in the article about us having some of the cheapest electricity in 1990 and some of the most expensive today could basically be rephrased as Ireland was one of the poorest countries in 1990 and one of the richest in 2025 – as we’ve all become wealthier the staff at every step of the way in every supply chain have also become more expensive and prices line up with that.
In any case the solution to this is more investment in renewals and less dependencies on fossil fuels that are sensitive to global shocks. We have the perfect climate for large scale wind farms.
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Unit prices for whole EU. Blue bar is price ex taxes.
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This makes sense given we’re an island nation that refuses to embrace nuclear power.
Imagine if we had enough nuclear power to make electricity ridiculously dirt cheap. BER ratings wouldn’t matter as heating would be close to free. We could build countless data centers and we could have lots of manufacturing.
Someone has to pay for the yanks AI training and data mining servers. They used a tiny fraction of their wealth finding ways to underdeliver or avoid their development promises to ease their impact on energy consumption.
If the ordinary public wants free to heavily discounted energy prices then they can slide their own brown envelopes in the right directions.
I know this will be a doom and gloom thread and cheaper electricity would of course be great, but it’s worth contextualising this that we pay €360 more than EU average, but our average salaries are €20,000 more than EU average. The rate of energy poverty in Ireland is less than half the EU average, though we are behind all the Scandinavian countries and a few others.
The quote in the article about us having some of the cheapest electricity in 1990 and some of the most expensive today could basically be rephrased as Ireland was one of the poorest countries in 1990 and one of the richest in 2025 – as we’ve all become wealthier the staff at every step of the way in every supply chain have also become more expensive and prices line up with that.
In any case the solution to this is more investment in renewals and less dependencies on fossil fuels that are sensitive to global shocks. We have the perfect climate for large scale wind farms.