Last night.
President Higgins and Sabina turned on the Christmas lights at Áras An Uachtaráin linking the decorations with the light that “always shines for the global Irish family”.
Hmm.
Pic: @PresidentIRL
Meanwhile…
The company which operates the flow of electricity on the national grid has said the all-time record peak demand for supply, dating back to 2010, has been broken twice in the last seven days.
Eirgrid said the final shut-down today of the first of two peat-burning power stations in the Midlands has been factored into their projections for supply and demand in 2021.
But the company has warned of the risk of electricity deficit situations arising in the coming months.
Eirgrid warns of power outages as demand rises (RTÉ)
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…will nobody think of the data centres…
Shhhh…. Jeff might hear you
“Nothing, Alexa. I said nothing”
Looks like a potential video for the new AC/DC album
Or Metallica’s… Ride The Lightening :)
Jaysus bone idle lazy, would they not hang the lights…nah just chuck em on the lawn
haha
Yay, come patronise us with your wealth and jizz a load of money on some pointless ‘arty’ lights while you’re at it, good stuff, money well wasted.
ROFL. And a Happy Christmas to you too!
+1 :)
The problem with the grid and increasing electricity deficit situations is due to the headlong rush into building wind farms and failing to have enough stand by sources of generation when the wind doesn’t blow. Wind turbines are badly inefficient and experience terrible intermittency at producing power, it frequently happens especially during the coldest times of the year when demand is at maximum, all due to high pressure cold spell weather conditions i.e. calm days.
The wind farms have to be backed up continuously by fossil fuelled power stations and the closure of any power station like the peat burning Midlands ones make the situation worse. Instead of inefficient wind turbine generation its time Ireland built a clean low c02 modern nuclear power station but that wouldn’t suit the luddite Green agenda or the fossil fuel company backers that both own and are happy to see wind turbine and solar farms installed as it means a constant demand for fossil fuel as their back up source.
should connect it to the Broadsheet comment section
You’re not hoping to get paid for commenting BB?
→_→ I reckon he already is ←_←
Hopefully we will end up with a solution like Denmark who are already generating 50% of their energy from wind, and most of the rest is imported hydro/ nuclear from neighbouring countries. They are on track to meet their target of phasing out all fossil fuel energy generation by 2030. The Celtic interconnector (due in 2026) between Ireland & France will go a long way in helping to phase out our reliance on fossils. Presumably we will mostly get solar from Spain and nuclear from France, and then be able to sell our wind energy back to Europe in return.
Sell our wind energy…. Pipe dreams these ideas are made of, surely.
Sell our wind energy? Haha, why don’t we sell our diamonds too while we’re at it.
The French took a considered wise decision in the 1970’s during the oil crisis to break their reliance on fossil fuels by building nuclear power stations as a reliable source of on tap energy.
The environmental damage that is planned to be created across our landscape and seascape will be for nought. Someday try a hike up Mt Leinster and witness the destruction on the nearby hillsides of unabated wind farms a terrible ugly blight on the landscape, for low power intermittent energy backed up 100% of the time by fossil fuels..
If people are unscientifically scared of Ireland having nuclear power then I think Ireland and climate change would be better served by just building interconnectors to whatever countries that can supply energy generated by nuclear power.
How much has Wind Power cost the electricity consumer in PSO levies and the taxpayer in
Tax exemptions in the last 10 years……several Billion,,,,,why is the money not directed into
a residential household PV scheme, because it would bankrupt the ESB and Eirgrid, the
answer is certainly blowing in the wind
Aw wouldja lookit da loights. I feel better already, thanks Prez!
What a comparison with the armed camp known as the White House.
Just build a nuclear power plant and be done with it!
+1
+999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999 :)