Ireland in need of wind and solar farms as coal-burning era ends

RTÉ News ^ | Sunday, 10 Aug 2025 11:59 | George Lee, Environment Correspondent

[pissant]

they burned all the trees and peat over the last 1000 years

[Olog-hai]

There’s still about five percent of the island’s land mass that has viable peat.

[pissant]

The black market will see to it rapid depletion

[Olog-hai]

It’s already being poached.

[pissant]

England is getting ready to toss their socialist overlords into the Channel. Hopefully Ireland will do the same.

[TangoLimaSierra]

This is perfect for the 11th century wanna be muzzies.

[Nervous Tick]

>> Official figures for the month from Eirgrid show renewable energy is quickly filling the gap left by coal.

ROFLMAO! Yeah, right-o, Mick. Best of luck with that. LOL

[grey_whiskers]

See if there are any energy-intensive companies / industries based in Ireland and buy puts, or short them.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Germany is in the lead. By a big margin.

[cpdiii]

When the wind stops blowing and the sun is not shining you will burn coal, oil, and natural gas or freeze in the dark.

I personally have no problem with wind and solar so long as it is economic. It is not.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Ireland in need of wind and solar farms of some ENERGY SANITY.

[ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas]

Ireland still has 2,000,000 acres of forest. And they have been using coal for heat and power since the 1700s. The article is dishonest.

[Olog-hai]

George Lee contradicts himself. At first he says it’s happening “quickly”, then he says it’s not happening fast enough.

[A strike]

Ten Thousand new windmills to beautify Eire right?

[Olog-hai]

Never mind the golden eagles and white-tailed eagles that had to be reintroduced to the island.

[Titus-Maximus]

Solar and wind power are the fool’s gold of renewable energy.

[BFW]

Ireland, the Irish are slowly being removed and replaced in a slow motion genuflection gentrification of racial genocide. And now the powers that be want the the huddled mass's to really need to huddle to gather to keep warm.

Just how many days of sun light do they get in a year??????

[know.your.why]

I dont understand this whole “dirtiest fossil fuel imaginable” notion. USA coal fired electricity plants have three stages of burning and re-burning the initial gasses that are generated so that all the sulfur, nitrogen oxide, and particulate matter are all but eliminated and all thats left is water and carbon dioxide.

[Olog-hai]

Sometimes I wonder where these RTÉ journalists are living, really. Sure isn’t Ireland, otherwise they would know how little sunlight the country gets.

[af_vet_1981]

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.

The Irish never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity. They make poor choices.