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Green Collective @greencollective.io · 26/12/2025

December 25 is just about the only day when electricity demand in Ireland peaks around lunchtime rather than in the evening 🎄 When else can you expect this behaviour? Easter Sunday. We love our roasts! 🍗 Renewables supplied over half of this year's Christmas Day electricity 🔌 #SpeirGorm

A stacked area chart of the electricity generation mix on the island of Ireland with the following fuel types: battery, pumped storage, biomass, waste-to-energy, hydro, solar, wind, and gas. There is also a black line showing electricity demand.

Footnote reads: All-island figures. Excludes domestic solar. Source: EirGrid, SEMO

A treemap of the electricity mix on the island of Ireland with the following fuel types: battery, pumped storage, biomass, hydro, solar, wind, gas, and waste-to-energy. Larger sources are annotated with the GWh and percentage of total generation that source comprised.

Footnote reads: All-island figures. Excludes domestic solar. Source: EirGrid, SEMO

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Green Collective @greencollective.io · 14/12/2025

Renewable generation and discharging storage equalled 76% of yesterday's electricity demand, with a peak of 86% at 21:45. Fossil fuel generation (mostly gas) equalled 27% of demand. 5% of generation was exported, 2% of demand was met by imports.

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Green Collective @greencollective.io · 05/12/2025

🚨Our dashboard caught a new all-island wind output record this morning: 4671MW at 9:30am on Friday, 5 December!🚨 www.greencollective.io/records

A screenshot of Green Collective's records dashboard. It shows current and past wind output records in MW (red dots) and as a percentage of demand (blue dots) on the Irish grid. It also lists out top 5 timestamps with highest all-island wind output, the top one being Friday December 5 2025 @9:30: 4671MW.

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moranjustin.bsky.social @moranjustin.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

You think you can’t love the Green Collective lads more and then you find they’re Princess Bride fans. Curious who might be the Dread Pirate Roberts of the Irish electricity system…..

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moranjustin.bsky.social @moranjustin.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

Fantastic news! Record smashed with three and a half months to go!

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moranjustin.bsky.social @moranjustin.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

Stop scrolling!! The Irish electricity grid needs YOUR help. Take 30 seconds to click on the link below and send an email to your TDs encouraging them to support investment in our electricity grid. Please like, comment and share to help get the word out. buildourgrid.ie/pr6-irelands...

buildourgrid.ie

PR6: Ireland’s chance to future-proof our electricity grid

Make Ireland’s grid investment plan deliver for the future

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Chris Meder @evcurvefuturist.com · 27/08/2025

China’s EV charging network surged 53% YoY to 16.7M units. Europe? +35% to just over 1M. US? +20% to under 200k. Tesla? ~65k plugs. Nobody’s even close—this is how seriously China is taking electrification & its energy transition. Keep up or get left behind! 🚗🔌🔋⚡🇨🇳 #EV #EnergyTransition #BEV #RIPICE

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China's EV charging network hits 16.7 million units, records 7.71 billion kWh monthly usage

Global leader China boasts 16.7 million EV chargers, consuming 7.71 billion kWh monthly.

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

They will try to tell you, “Resistance is futile.” It is never so.

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

“California is so far using forty per cent less natural gas to generate electricity than it did in 2023, which is the single most hopeful statistic I’ve seen in four decades of writing about the climate crisis.” www.newyorker.com/news/annals-...

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4.6 Billion Years On, the Sun Is Having a Moment

In the past two years, without much notice, solar power has begun to truly transform the world’s energy system.

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Green Collective @greencollective.io · 28/06/2025

Renewable generation in Ireland has exceeded 1TWh for the first time ever in a June month. That's equal to more than 35% of the island's electricity demand. There's a few days left yet in the month before our in-depth monthly newsletter arrives July 1st. Sign up for free today!

A chart of monthly renewable generation in June months from 2019 through 2025. A bar chart indicating GWh is overlaid on a line chart indicating renewable generation vs demand. The bar for June 2025 is a paler colour to indicate that data is incomplete because the month is not yet over.

All-island figures. Renewables comprise wind, hydro, solar, and biomass. Excludes domestic solar.
Source: EirGrid, SEMO

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Akshat Rathi @akshatrathi.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

Statistical Review of World Energy for 2024 is now available. Hidden inside the large spreadsheet is this gem. Note that calling a peak is fraught with problems. Often you don't know peak happened until a few years after. But there are SO many signs pointing to this moment coming!

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moranjustin.bsky.social @moranjustin.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Great column in the Business Post making many of the same arguments against full privatisation of waste collection made by anti-bin tax activists 20 years ago. Strange to see it coming from the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission! www.businesspost.ie/article/irel...

businesspost.ie

Ireland’s privatised waste collection system is broken- only the state can fix it

Domestic waste collection is not a typical market and having lots of bin lorries driving down that same street does not serve the consumer interest

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The Exploding Heads @explodingheads.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

"I worked hard all my life until I retired at 42. And it makes my blood boil that lazy snowflakes don't want to work." Colin from Portsmouth on the benefits system.

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moranjustin.bsky.social @moranjustin.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Where on earth have you been all my life? Fantastic beer from the Dew Drop Inn brewery. Ordering by the caseload. #craftbeer #IrishCraftBeer

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moranjustin.bsky.social @moranjustin.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Great article by @hannahdaly.ie in the paper this week. A healthy dose of common sense in a context where so much discussion of energy issues and the merits of fossil fuel infrastructure is fantasy stuff. www.irishtimes.com/environment/...

irishtimes.com

Sunk costs in fossil fuel infrastructure could sink us

The greatest cost of new fossil fuel projects may be the missed opportunity to build clean energy

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 21/03/2025

Congestion pricing is an unqualified triumph. One of the most immediately, strikingly successful public policies of my lifetime.

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moranjustin.bsky.social @moranjustin.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

Pints and politics this weekend. Strongly recommend this book by British journalist Ash Sarkar. Read it in a day, terrific political analysis.

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Aoibhinn Ni Shuilleabhain (PhD) @aoibhinnos.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Haven’t cycled in town in ages but really hadn’t geared myself up again for the lack of space for cycling. The city REALLY needs to improve for road users other than cars, buses & trucks. Most of my headspace was taken up hoping I’d make it home to my kids in one piece! Do better DCC… 🛻🚙🚚🚛🚌🚴‍♂️🚑

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moranjustin.bsky.social @moranjustin.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Jesus had killed two people by the age of five, and sold slaves, and his Mam cut off the hands of another woman in a really interesting way. Fascinating story of the Christian gospels and teachings that got edited out and, in some ways, live on in Christian teaching. Great read.

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moranjustin.bsky.social @moranjustin.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Wouldn’t you be mortified if, as a political activist, this was the best you could come up with? No wonder these boys lose elections they should win.

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Green Collective @greencollective.io · 04/03/2025

February recap is now on our website. Read all about the greenest month the Irish grid has ever had! 🙌 www.greencollective.io/post/monthly...

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Monthly Recap, February 2025

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Joseph Fasano @josephfasano.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

for the healers working among the destroyers 🖤

The Healers

You can hear them
moving among the ruins,
hear them by their silence in the noisy crowds.
You can see them, opening
their little bags, opening
the shrapneled hearts of strangers,
crouching before the body of a child
to lean down and whisper her a story,
a story in which what's happening
is not what's happening.
They mend; they stitch; they carry.
They work; they weep; they lose.
And when nothing can be done
among the rubble,
they kneel there as the fires fall around them
and they cradle the face
of the dying,
the life that is trying
to speak to them,
the life that whispers, listen,
and they do.

—Joseph Fasano

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moranjustin.bsky.social @moranjustin.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Every time this pops up in my timeline I’m basically useless for half an hour.

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Green Collective @greencollective.io · 07/02/2025

Batteries broke dispatch records *four times* last month; they're now reaching 4% of all-island peak evening winter demand. That's a lot less gas generation needed during peak load and is certain to increase. More details and charts in our January review 🔋 www.greencollective.io/post/monthly...

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Monthly Recap, January 2025

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moranjustin.bsky.social @moranjustin.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

If this news means anything it's that we should immediately halt the development of any new renewable energy because some lad on Facebook says they make cats marry dogs. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Temperatures at north pole 20C above average and beyond ice melting point

Scientists say unusually mild temperatures linked to low-pressure system over Iceland directing strong flow of warm air towards north pole

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Kim, Bestie of Bunzy, Co-CEO Execubetch™️ @easybakedoven.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

I love that a white guy was flying the plane, a white guy was flying the helicopter, and a white guy gutted the FAA last week but somehow the blame is too much diversity.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

if we staff ICE with Uvalde police officers, they'll never enter schools

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moranjustin.bsky.social @moranjustin.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

There's a fair few politicians who have campaigned against a strong electricity grid lamenting how long it is taking to restore power to families and businesses without electricity.

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a man says let 's connect those dots while walking

ALT: a man says let 's connect those dots while walking

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

If you made this argument back in the day you were smugly dismissed as an economically illiterate lefty. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

theatlantic.com

The Walmart Effect

New research suggests that the company makes the communities it operates in poorer—even taking into account its famous low prices.

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moranjustin.bsky.social @moranjustin.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

“Enabling a faster planning system and expanding our grid are central to Ireland’s success in developing a strong wind sector and a clean industry for the future," Michael Lohan of IDA Ireland tells delegates to open the second day of #WEIConf.

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moranjustin.bsky.social @moranjustin.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Great presentation on how to protect and enhance foraging sites for hen harriers around wind farms from Stephen McGrath of ⁦FuturEnergy Ireland⁩ at #WEIconf. Rewarding landowners to manage land to create habitats for one of Ireland’s most endangered creatures.

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moranjustin.bsky.social @moranjustin.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

"No transition without transmission," @EirGrid's Liam Ryan tells #WEIConf25 as he urges everyone to help members of the public understand the critical need for grid infrastructure.

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moranjustin.bsky.social @moranjustin.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

We need to prioritise #WindEnergy for Ireland's demand opportunities before we look at exports, Danny McCoy of IBEC tells #WEIConf25, while warning we need to see electricity prices fall. Echoes Wind Energy Ireland's calls for investment in grid.

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moranjustin.bsky.social @moranjustin.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Just sitting here, minding my own business, hitting refresh and waiting for the energy section of the Programme for Government.

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moranjustin.bsky.social @moranjustin.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

"...creating a Department of Infrastructure will drain resources and ultimately waste time..." Have yet to find a single person working every day on energy infrastructure who thinks a Dept of Infrastructure is a good idea. www.businesspost.ie/analysis-opi...

businesspost.ie

Statkraft chief: Why Ireland needs a mission control centre to break local grip on energy

There is too much objection and not enough implementation when it comes to delivering major wind energy projects

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moranjustin.bsky.social @moranjustin.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Visit Wind Energy Ireland's stand #30 at the #BTYSTE this morning! We're there to encourage the next generation to #workinwind. Be anything you want, but be part of the solution.

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Green Collective @greencollective.io · 08/01/2025

🚨 The Irish grid experiencing all-time high load this evening during the current cold snap: we reached 7497MW at 5.30pm, absolutely smashing the previous record of 7131MW set just a few weeks ago. Stay warm, folks ☃️ More details on our records page: www.greencollective.io/records

A stacked area chart of the electricity generation mix on the island of Ireland. There are eight fuel types: battery, pumped storage, biomass, hydro, solar, wind, gas, and other fossil fuels. The chart also includes a black line showing electricity demand.

Footnote reads: All-island figures. Excludes domestic solar. Some sources are estimated. Source: EirGrid, SEMO

A chart showing a historical demand (load) records on the island of Ireland. Records are indicated with a large circle and the time between with dashed lines.

Footnote reads: All-island figures. Source: EirGrid, SEMO

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moranjustin.bsky.social @moranjustin.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

It’s going to be a long, long, four years.

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Leo Hickman @leohickman.carbonbrief.org · 06/01/2025

It's hard to state just how obsessed the Telegraph is with Ed Miliband. A constant stream of bias and bile dressed up as "news". Here's just five days of its "journalism". It's a furnace of hate that the editors demand be fed with ever more fuel. Any angle will do...

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

This is a David Brooks line about Trump but arguably applies to Musk as much (when stoned): "We’ve got this perverse situation in which the vast analytic powers of the entire world are being spent trying to understand a guy whose thoughts are often just six fireflies beeping randomly in a jar."

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Green Collective @greencollective.io · 03/01/2025

Irish electricity also slightly cleaner in 2024 than 2023 (making 2024 the cleanest ever). Preliminary 2023 v 2024 stats: Low-carbon sources/generation: 42.2% v 42.4% Low-carbon sources/demand: 38%v 37.5% (Low-carbon+imports from GB)/demand: 49.5% v 50.2% Grid carbon intensity (gCO2/kWh): 280 v 256

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UK electricity cleanest ever in 2024, with record 58% from low-carbon sources

UK has more than halved amount of electricity generated from fossil fuels but gas still had largest share at 28%

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Paul Krugman @pkrugman.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

Democrats say this, Republicans say that. But don't readers deserve to hear some facts? paulkrugman.substack.com/p/bothsidesi...

paulkrugman.substack.com

Bothsidesing, With a Republican Slant: Here We Go Again

Election results don’t change the facts

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⚜️Baldgood Marshall @freshlogic.blacksky.app · 01/01/2025

Funny, how the suspect in New Orleans had a truck full of IED’s.

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Susie Dent @susiedentwords.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

Word of the Day is one I keep posting at the end of the year, hoping its time will come. ‘Respair’, from the 16th century, is fresh hope, and a recovery from despair. Here’s to a few drops of respair in 2025.

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moranjustin.bsky.social @moranjustin.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

Higher gas and electricity prices coming for Ireland and Europe as a whole. Nearly three years since the Russian invasion and still not building enough renewables and grid to end Europe’s dependency on Putin. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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Russia and Ukraine End Five Decades of Gas Transit to Europe

Russian gas stopped flowing to Europe via Ukraine, closing off a route that’s operated for five decades after Kyiv refused to allow any transit that funds Moscow’s war machine.

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