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"Wind energy is an Irish success story, driving down electricity costs for consumers, cutting millions of tonnes of CO2 emissions every year and securing a homegrown energy future that doesn't depend on importing fossil fuels."
The 37 per cent share of electricity demand amounted to more than 2.8 million MWh of electricity, compared to 2.7 million in the first quarter of 2018. The average Irish household uses approximately 4.5 MWh of electricity every year.
The total installed capacity of Ireland's wind farms has now risen to 3,700 MW, approximately enough to power 2.2 million Irish homes annually.
Ireland is becoming green in more ways than one.
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Wind Provided 37 Percent of Ireland's Electricity in Q1 2019
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(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 21 2019, @10:38AM
First post. Oh, never mind.
Also, the author has lived here in Ireland, the island of…, for a long time. There has been a questionable proliferation of land based wind farms of a small to medium size. The planning process for these entities is not clear and further, the inference that these devices are wholly benevolent and have been tirelessly supplying the island with electricity are dubious claims.
Ireland is a relatively small land mass, traditionally known for its greenery, rolling hills and such (as well as some of the more negative stereotypes associated with its inhabitants). This was always a trick of the mind as the island never had much wilderness to begin with, there are national parks of other nations which by area would give the entire island a run for its money. Much like a previous blight: bungalow-itis (which has been contained to a degree but not cured) there has been an unfettered infection of these turbines which has had the deleterious effect of ruining this pleasant illusion of unencumbered wilderness. One now can traverse the country and as well as there being a bungalow within sight no matter which hill is crested, corner turned, road traveled, there are these behemoth cyclops to behold.
One could only wish this was a quixotic or Ulysses-type invasion, alas it is just the disease-ridden, neo-liberal cockroach coming to visit, perhaps Kafkaesque at a stretch? NIMBY-ism notwithstanding, the reference piece is a nothing but corporate posturing and a pretty anaemic attempt it is too. What would be interesting would be to see just how much of the power generated is used domestically, and as for the private holdings involved it remains very difficult to swallow the line: ‘Wind energy is an Irish success story, driving down electricity costs for consumers, cutting millions of tonnes of CO2 emissions every year and securing a homegrown energy future that doesn’t depend on importing fossil fuels’. ‘Driving down’? Indeed!
Regards,
AC