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Ireland has just closed its last coal power plant, becoming the 15th coal free country in Europe. This is mostly due to an increase in wind power.
https://www.pv-magazine.com/2025/06/20/ireland-coal-free-ends-coal-power-generation-moneypoint/
Mar 9 at 1:22amWeb
Show threadCarlos SolísMar 9
@ExtinctionR Took them a while, but congrats!
Show thread@iveylineMar 9
@ExtinctionR Progress!
Show threadRichard R LeeMar 9
Bravo Ireland. #Bravo!
#Decarbonization #AtScale.
@ExtinctionR
Show threadEmil Jacobs - CollectifissionMar 9

@ExtinctionR In fact, if I'm reading the data correctly, it seems they phased out that last 500 GWh, compared to the winter of 2024-25, by importing that amount from the UK.

The UK did see an increase of 3 TWh last year for wind and 5 TWh for solar, but still had to import itself from nuclear France in the order of 30 TWh for 2025.

I can't pinpoint this closure, which is mostly symbolic at this point, to a rise in wind. Meanwhile, their fossil gas use didn't change much at all and still amounted to almost 15 TWh in 2025, half of the total electricity consumption.

Source: https://www.energy-charts.info/
Source: https://ourworldindata.org/profile/energy/united-kingdom
Source: https://ourworldindata.org/profile/energy/ireland

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Show threadPadjoMar 9
@collectifission @ExtinctionR it hasn't been producing energy for a year. Most of the energy was replaced by gas and imports, but at least some of it was from wind and grid improvements that allow higher capacity factors on renewables, e.g. higher non synchronous limits
Show threadSpace HoboMar 9
@collectifission @ExtinctionR I was also under the impression that the island of Ireland's energy mix is still largely diesel-based in many parts.
Show threadEmil Jacobs - CollectifissionMar 9

@spacehobo For electricity that's only a small percentage (check the last link, under "Electricity production by source"), but for energy as a whole (scroll up to "Energy consumption by source"), it's about 50%, yes.

@ExtinctionR

Show threadMr. Lance E Sloan (IRL) 👤Mar 9
@ExtinctionR
Is it now firmly part of the lands of dead birds and windmill cancer? 😉
Show threadHoward CohenMar 9
@ExtinctionR Bravo Ireland!!
Show threadVon TravoltaMar 9

@ExtinctionR

Wie dumm, die Iren. Kohle und Gas gehört doch die Zukunft in Deutschland. Wind und Sonne sind vielleicht bestenfalls Übergangstechnologie, bis ... äh... Atomkraft, genau, weil irgendwann wird das Endlager Problem sich ja von alleine lösen wird, also grüne Kernenergie, das ist die Lösung.
Dumme Iren.

*Seufz*
#cdu #merz #reiche #klima

Show threadthepoliticalcatMar 9
@ExtinctionR Meanwhile, in this country, a certain demented lunatic is demanding that we all use "clean coal" and prop up the petrodollar with our lives. Perhaps even the mid-East has had enough of him lately.
Show threadAnke@IntertemboMar 10
@ExtinctionR Do you know, how they deal with the production costs and waste (after use) of wildmills? Can we learn from it?