Dublin does not get a lot of sun: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cities_by_sunshine_duration I’m curious how competitive it is.
My parents in Ireland have just put solar on their roof. They have a battery and plan for an electric car to replace their ice next year. Their power bill is now in credit and it’s winter time. They now think they could last 3 days without power in an outage and 7 days if they didn’t wash and dry clothes.
Solar is always weather dependent. Ireland is not hot and often is cloudy, but there is daylight and that makes power. It comes down to economics and they work, it seems.
Wow sounds like they have a pretty sweet setup. Good on them for doing all of the work
I was comparing the numbers with France, Paris. Yes they get less sun, but it’s not a factor of two… still a lot of free energy, once the panels are installed. And given how cheap they have become… (Edit: I guess it’s more a question of whether they have the space to install panels in places where electricity infrastructure is already present.)
Yeah you are right, it’s still a lot of sun. I’m curious how much of their energy they import and if it’s expensive to import
I don’t know the details, but there is this beautiful Great Britain grid status page, and you can see the transfers to Ireland for the past year. If I’m reading this right they installed an absurd amount of wind (not enough, but getting close) and Ireland is currently importing.
I guess it’s more a question of whether they have the space to install panels in places where electricity infrastructure is already present.
Which is a good question, because I remember talking to an engineer from an Irish (waste to energy) power plant a few years ago, and he specifically was looking for ways to convert energy (like hydrogen production) because there was too little capacity on the grid.
