Because battery and hydro backup is several orders of magnitude more expensive than gas
Banania2020 on
Ireland’s electricity is expensive mainly because gas power stations still determine the market price.
When gas costs rise, electricity prices rise too, even when a large share of power is coming from renewables.
Neither-Payment-4147 on
Now what are the “oh but the datacenters” people gonna do?
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Without reading the article.
No. 1: Greed
Isolated market, lots of gas dependency, massive foot dragging on renewables…
TL;DR
*IRELAND’S HEAVY USE of gas for electricity generation is one of the main reasons prices here are so high, according to researchers at the ESRI.*
TLDR; Irelands heavy use of gas
What the article doesn’t mention is why are we using gas? And the answer is it’s needed as backup for unreliable wind and solar
See https://www.smartgriddashboard.com/all/ right now as an example
Because battery and hydro backup is several orders of magnitude more expensive than gas
Ireland’s electricity is expensive mainly because gas power stations still determine the market price.
When gas costs rise, electricity prices rise too, even when a large share of power is coming from renewables.
Now what are the “oh but the datacenters” people gonna do?