John Mulligan: Questo per quanto riguarda il “Medio Oriente” delle energie rinnovabili, la sicurezza energetica in Irlanda è ancora uno scherzo
https://www.independent.ie/business/irish/john-mulligan-so-much-for-the-middle-east-of-renewables-energy-security-in-ireland-is-still-a-joke/a1065242189.html
di zainab1900
13 commenti
One word: nuclear.
We can’t grow our own vegetables never mind energy. A country of minimal ambition. Just a handy offshore for American businesses. Not a real country.
But the view from my holiday home would be affected. Think of the effect on the property price.
We can’t have energy independence because Tommy Tiernan’s view will be ruined fuck that prick
Buying gas from the Brits at a premium is just the way we want it. Don’t want windfarms and solar farms disturbing the view.
Everybody wants the benefits of national infrastructure, and nobody wants to have to look at it.
We arsed around for 25 years and let NIMBYs set the agenda. That’s basically the long and the short of it. Years and billions squandered and it is entirely our own fault.
This is what we accept and vote for, time and time again.
Who could have thought a decade of fucking around with offshore regulations and planning processes could have led to a situation where we have basically no offshore wind generation. People never see the costs associated with Irish regulatory incompetence until something happens. Scotland has sensible polices and now has a massive world leading off shore wind sector and Ireland is still whistling in the wind.
this is the kick up the hole we need as a continent.
A country where it’s cheaper to fill my car with petrol and drive to Dublin from Roscommon than it is to take the bus isn’t serious about hardening the country against oil shocks or efficiency.
Then again with oil hitting 150 200 take your pick maybe the bus will be cheaper at last, haha.
My work is tangentially connected to one of the companies pitching to construct one of the offshore fields. The fucking thing is moving at a snail’s pace and costing the bidders millions.
One of the bidding companies dropped out last year, having spent millions on the preparatory work. Now that entire project is dead. It’s like the civil service has zero sense of urgency about this. The 2030 targets are a joke at this stage.
How can it take so long? We are still years away from construction starting on any of these fields.
I cycled past Brittas Bay at the weekend from where you can see Ireland’s only existing offshore wind farm. Only half of the planned turbines were ever installed, and last year the ones that were installed were decommissioned as they were end of life. So now there’s just the towers sticking out of the sea with no blades on them. Pretty much sums up our ambitions. FWIW I live on the east coast and I have no problem with the proposed wind farms off Dublin and Wicklow, get on with it!
We abandoned searching for our own oil and gas before we had fully guaranteed our energy security through renewables. An absurd and dangerous decision now leaving us at the mercy of despots.