Save Kerry

Imagine 1000MW of wind gets approved and deployed onto our grid in various locations around Ireland. The quantity of energy that's possible from this, every year, is: 1000 x 30% x 24 x 365 = 2,628,000 MWh (Enough energy "for 600,000 homes") (Enough to avoid 950 kilotonnes of CO2) At a system-wide level wind was producing 13,500,000 MWh, before the deployment. After the deployment this amount should be; 13,500,000 + 2,628,000 = 16,128,000 MWh However, If the new curtailment rate is say 16%, then the total systemwide level of wind energy is actually: 13,500,000 + 2,628,000 - (0.16 x 16,128,000) = 13,500,000 MWh In this scenario therefore, the new 1000MW farms can be politely called an "overbuild" And the net system energy from such deployments is nill. (No homes powered, no emmisions saved, no increase in RE% of demand). Who has benefited from this? Only the multinational owners and investors of the various deployments themselves. In fact, its even worse than this because of the "lost" effort of energy and emmisions due to in manufacturing, transportation, installation, ongoing ops. 🚨This is not a hypothetical scenario. This is Ireland now deploying new wind without mitigating measures in place 🚨