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Posted on 08/10/2025 3:11:54 PM PDT by Olog-hai
Ireland’s 40-year-long era of burning coal — the dirtiest fossil fuel imaginable — to generate electricity came to an end in June. That was when ESB announced it had ceased burning coal at its Moneypoint power station in County Clare, six months ahead of schedule.
Throughout those 40 years, the coal was transferred on noisy conveyer belts through what must surely have been the longest, ugliest, sequence of brown tunnels in the country. They ran from the jetty at Moneypoint, where the coal ships pulled up, to a huge coal storage yard and then right into the powerplant and furnaces to generate electricity. Now those conveyer belts have stopped. There’s no coal in the yard. The highly credible transformation of Moneypoint into a green energy hub is well under way and the post-coal era in Ireland has begun. […]
Official figures for the month from Eirgrid show renewable energy is quickly filling the gap left by coal. New milestones were passed last month for the contribution of solar power to Ireland’s energy mix. A new record of 798 megawatts of electricity from grid-connected solar farms in Ireland was set. […]
Unfortunately, however, that is where Ireland appears to be falling behind. We are far too slow at letting it happen. […]
Currently, taking all 12 months together, wind power alone supplies 35% of Ireland’s electricity. The official Government target is to have nine gigawatts of wind generating capacity installed by 2030. This is significantly more than the five gigawatts currently in place, so there is no time to waste. …
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Unicorn Farts!
They should have all the wind and flatulence they need with old windy O’Donnell over there.
Get serious, Ireland. Wind and solar farms alone won’t do the trick. Add bicycle generators, and you should be okay.
Government target is to have nine gigawatts of wind generating capacity installed by 2030. Guess they will just have to freeze in the dark until 2030. But they will feel good about themselves.
Wow. We complain about editorial being labeled as news here. This joker takes the cake. I’ll bet he went all Toobin in writing this passage:
Imagine that. 6% of all our electricity from the sun. And we are only at the beginning of this solar revolution. It is mind-blowing really, if we are honest.
It shows that the technology required to transform our energy system and make our lives cleaner and better is already here. We just need to enable it, speed it up, and embrace the system transformations required.
Well clutch my pearls!
I would be ashamed were I Irish.
We can now switch the generic joke to Ireland: “How will the Irish get lights at night after coal? Candles.”
And where are solar farms located, he asks? In the middle of the huge sunny Irish desert? Or on land used for growing food?
It almost looks like the Irish government is in a race with the British government to see which can destroy their nation faster.
Idiotic self destruction.
They’ll also need blankets and thermal underwear!!!
They could put a wind turbine outside Rosie o’ douches house for a constant blast of hot air. Good luck with the brown/black outs. More dumbassery!
It seldom gets dangerously hot...or cold...there so blackouts won’t be as bad as they’d be in other parts of the world.
IRELAND EXPERIENCES MASSIVE BLACKOUTS; EXPERTS CONFOUNDED
Guinness in the spring and summer , whiskey in the fall and winter.
Unicorn Farts and Rainbows , the disaster they’re about to create
Some say that a case can be made for solar farms near the equator. The further north or south you go - say, to Kansas City? Not so much.
But solar - in Ireland? Somebody's smoking some powerful stuff.
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