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@KathrynPorter26 @neso_energy Was Ireland at risk of not getting their normal supply from the UK while this was happening ??

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@mzjacobson @jm493_au @CaliforniaISO I wonder how you are funded

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@XEnergyIreland Thank you for clarification

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@XEnergyIreland Now how could there be 2 gwh wasted yesterday looking at the graph. Surely no bottlenecks in the grid

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@MLiebreich @JoeK1798 That horse has bolted. The consumer now understands that unreliable renewables along with the backup required when they don’t work is a poor policy, particularly in poor Sun countries. We are just patching a poor system to make it work.
Nuclear is the only way forward on this.

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@XEnergyIreland Keep an eye on how much our onshore wind is doing over the past week an going forward.
Your taxes and household bills are paying 19 billion to support an energy system that is quite simply no good when it matters. Not even enough to charge these expensive batteries.

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@mzjacobson @jm493_au @CaliforniaISO Both days. There was a two week no wind and a 10 % Solr su. here in Ireland April / May. How would those batteries be charged

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@upbeatman @declanganley Fully agree. This gdpr has suited them very well.

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@jm493_au @mzjacobson @CaliforniaISO Recharged with Gas. Check out the Texas and California grids

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@XEnergyIreland Just as well we are not building new windfarms going on this and next weeks wind generation.
Sorry, just dreaming that Darragh fell out with his wind buddies.

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@griptmedia @Ben_Scallan Our energy prices are higher because of unreliable renewables, needing grant RESS agreements and at the same time pay for the reliable gas backup renewables require same time having to pay for a

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@XEnergyIreland Past 6 days average of 16% efficiency in windfarm output used. Will be worse for next 7 days looking at Met Éireann forecast. Pointless upgrading grid for this inefficiency and adding more wind onshore will reduce that efficiency

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@XEnergyIreland All as a result of CRU awarding contracts to new wind farms without upgrading the grid. Upgrading the grid of course won’t fix most curtailment payments.

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@XEnergyIreland 66.4 million euro wasted wind and solar first two weeks of June.

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@XEnergyIreland Without our own Gas supply we simply were up the creek.
Grid upgrade and long term storage batteries would not have worked as there was no wind and no wind to charge the batteries.
We need nuclear and we do not want to waste billions on grid upgrade for another wind drought.

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@XEnergyIreland I’ve been waiting for George Lee to write how well our wind did in May. May have missed it, but he must not have been given data from Wind Energy Ireland. There was a two week period from 24 April to 10 May where there was practically no wind.

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@jasonomahony @JoeSmyth10 We need the IMF to run the country full time. First issue is look at their pensions and chop them down by 50. %

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@EVCurveFuturist They have a very different climate to UK and Ire.
They also have vast expanses of land with no neighbours