Huntstown Power Station, Dublin
According to data from Eurostat Irish households pay the highest electricity prices in the EU
Here is the table:
🇮🇪 20.69c per kWh unit
🇧🇪 17.67c
🇩🇪 15.62c
🇪🇸 13.58c
🇪🇺 13.29c
🇫🇷 12.72c
🇫🇮 12.00c
🇮🇸 10.71c
🇩🇰 10.40c
🇭🇺 07.89c
🇺🇦 04.04c— Carol Nolan TD (@CNolanOffaly) November 3, 2021
Gulp.
Anyone?
Update: figures disputed (see comments).
Previously: Irish Firms May Face Power Cuts at Hour’s Notice, Report Says
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And Amazon, Google, and Facebook in Ireland do not.
Quelle surprise – the country with no nuclear plants, no natural resources (other than peat – which we shut down) has the highest leccy bills
So much for all that wind eh?
just hot air
microbial fuel cells will generate electricity from faeces.
One of the few TDs worth listening to. Most others assume money is limitless, taxpayers are there to be robbed blind, and that government has no real duty of fiscal responsibility.
She is posting incorrect statistics so no she isn’t worth listening to.
Anyone know what the UK cost is?
UK in 2020 was 17.2p/kWh
It is 22cents.
another reason not to buy an electric car
there’s gonna be literally 1,000,000 of them on Irish roads by 2030 dontcha know
And the Norwegians pulled out of an offshore windfarm investment here because of red tape.
Well done!
38% of our energy is generated by wind which is the second highest in Europe in Norway it is about 2%. We don’t need to throw out the rule book to attract more investment in wind.
So are houses, rent, mortgages, broadband, insurance, gas, coal, petrol, building costs, public transport, television, gigs, alcohol and all the feckin’ rest
For household energy Germany pays the highest at 32cents, Denmark second at 29, Belgium 27, then Ireland at 25cents. EU average is 22cents
https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php?title=Electricity_price_statistics
Germany is also the highest for commercial electricity costs.
https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php?title=File:Electricity_prices_for_non-household_consumers,_first_half_2021_v5.png
Why is Ukraine in there? The lowest in the EU is Hungary at 10cents.
Fake news from Carol Nolan. It would be good if Broadsheet would fact check this stuff.
Can the post be updated to include the correct statistics instead of continuing to spread misinformation?
Figures disputed? I have literally linked to eurostat figures. The tweet claims to use Eurostat figures but doesn’t and doesn’t include a link. Why not add the genuine figures to the actual post or verify the TD’s figures. It strange to criticise the mainstream media as fake news but to make posts like this…
it’s important for the irish public to shoulder the burden of electricity costs so that our many, many data centres can operate, for the good of the economy.
Prices quoted are per unit. Do the other countries have additional levies added? Do they also have a low usage charge? Etc. Etc. Are those charges included in Ireland’s unit cost?
Maybe a similar exercise in the price of motor vehicles could be done?