Con Sheehan

[Con Sheehan @SheehanConj]

@XEnergyIreland Check out the past week.
Low import of elect, which means high Irish gas use, but co2 emissions then don’t stack up. Low w&s also.

[Con Sheehan @SheehanConj]

@XEnergyIreland We appear to be importing little electricity and nuclear lately. Why then are our co2 emissions low if we are using gas to replace. Is the gas imported also ?

[Con Sheehan @SheehanConj]

@XEnergyIreland I note that the UK electricity issues of more than normal supply requirements had an effect on our imports. We used a lot of gas in lieu.

[Con Sheehan @SheehanConj]

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

[Con Sheehan @SheehanConj]

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

[Con Sheehan @SheehanConj]

@XEnergyIreland Thank you for clarification

[Con Sheehan @SheehanConj]

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

[Con Sheehan @SheehanConj]

@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.

[Con Sheehan @SheehanConj]

@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.

[Con Sheehan @SheehanConj]

@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

[Con Sheehan @SheehanConj]

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

[Con Sheehan @SheehanConj]

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

[Con Sheehan @SheehanConj]

@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.

[Con Sheehan @SheehanConj]

@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

[Con Sheehan @SheehanConj]

@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

[Con Sheehan @SheehanConj]

@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.

[Con Sheehan @SheehanConj]

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

[Con Sheehan @SheehanConj]

@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.