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    Irland ist jetzt das teuerste Land in der EU für Strom

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    3. Lawfulraccoon on

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      Us? Being charged a fortune for something? Never!

    5. Ill_Celebration_4215 on

      These are always wrong. They always use some bizarre ‘official’ price point that nobody pays. 

    7. Ashamed-End-2138 on

      Im far from a government supporter but is this not just a combination of our economy being stronger and geography? We’re still not connected to the mainland EU grid, on the continent they can share power from the Baltics and Turkey all the way to Portugal.

    8. DaCor_ie on

      I’m just going to repeat what I’ve said previously

      If you want the price lowered more, then fossil fuels (as a regular generator) need to be fully removed from the grid asap i.e. renewables, interconnectors and backup needs to account for basically 99% of our energy needs for the year, with gas spinning up in the rare periods where those are not sufficient

      The current price of power is driven by the most expensive generator. This is currently and has been for a while now, gas.

      Keep gas turbines, keep high electricity prices. Its honestly that simple

      Edit: Links to more info

      [Why is Irish electricity so expensive? Economists have crunched the numbers](https://www.thejournal.ie/esri-electricity-prices-7011725-Apr2026/)

      [Why are Irish consumers paying the most for electricity in Europe?](https://www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2025/0820/1529121-ireland-electricity-prices-europe-production-natural-gas-infrastructure/)

    11. elcabroMcGinty on

      Expect the usual _“we know it’s difficult but there’s nothing we can do“_ from FFG.

    12. Soul_of_Miyazaki on

      And you still have absolute clowns in these threads reasoning why it has to be this high and how the government are doing the best they can.

      What an embarrassment.

    14. IrksomFlotsom on

      Nice, as if spend almost a quarter of my income on electricity wasn’t enough. Do they take blood? I’ve got plenty of that

    17. 14ned on

      Yesterday I installed a balcony solar system from Germany with 1.6 kWh of battery storage. 100% DIY installation, it feeds a few hundred watts into a standard household plug, never feeds into the grid. Total cost under 800 euro. Easily pays for itself within two years even though you’re paying 23% VAT and no grants available for these.

      If you’re not fitting one off these you’re throwing money out the window in Ireland, even with the Irish weather. They are very popular elsewhere in Europe for good reason.

    18. im_on_the_case on

      Are there no scientists amongst us? Surely if we were to capute all the hot air from r/Ireland on a daily basis and fed it into turbines we’d be swimming in electricity.

    21. Smokersky on

      „At 40.42 cent per kilowatt-hour (including VAT and levies) prices here are almost 40 per cent above the EU average of 28.96 cent.“

      I pay 25c day rate and 13c night rate. Who’s stupid enough to pay 40c???

    22. HofRoma on

      Why wouldn’t we be given our wages, island nation and huge reliance on imported fossil fuels.

    24. Craicriture on

      Finite number of expensive DC interconnectors vs being part of the U.K. national grid. Scotland “exports” largely to the huge market on the same island in England – they’re on the same national grid, which also ties into the continental market across a much shorter hop under the channel.
      We are expanding the interconnections but they’re taking ages and they’re inevitably expensive.
      Then the constant objections to off shore wind and associated infrastructure has been making it unattractive to built. We had companies pull out because of difficulties with planning permission and foreshore licences.
      We seem to absorb every conspiracy theory too around EMF etc etc and ultimately we’ll just end up with blackouts. You can’t just magically create electricity without generating infrastructure

    25. AllTheSuckInTheWorld on

      Let’s try voting for Fine Gael! Or maybe Fall? Fail? Faíl? Do we have other parties? Wonder what they think of this!

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