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Thread #162855   Message #3940343
Posted By: Iains
30-Jul-18 - 03:57 AM
Thread Name: BS: Post Brexit life in the UK
Subject: RE: BS: Post Brexit life in the UK
"For example: one suggestion for overcome the electricity supply for Northern Ireland is to send thousand of generators. A real Dunkirk little ships idea, a great dramatic solution."

Ho Hum!!!!!!! more poorly researched comments!

Reality:
In 2014 about 45% of electricity was generated from natural gas, 96% of which was imported from Scotland. Most of that gas originated in the North Sea with Continental Europe and Liquified Natural Gas (LNG) imports to Britain making up the balance.
The coal-fired electricity generating station at Moneypoint(Co Clare) supplied 14.3% of the electricity needs using coal imported from Columbia .

About 32% of the electricity was generated from Irish sources in 2014. These were wind, peat, hydro and other renewable sources (biomass, biogas and wastes)

In the same year (2014) Ireland imported about 7.6% of electricity from Britain via the East-West interconnector.( The East–West Interconnector is a high-voltage direct current submarine and subsoil power cable which connects the Irish and British electricity markets.
Power rating?: ?500 MW)

Northern Ireland trades electricity with the Republic of Ireland to which it is a net exporter. (via the north south interconnector infrastructure)


so the above point made is ??????????????

The link below is several years old but I cannot find any recent data to radically change the picture.

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/environment/ireland-s-energy-crisis-1.2111299