Warum zahlen irische Häuser am meisten für Strom in Europa?
https://www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2025/0820/1529121-ireland-electricity-prices-europe-production-natural-gas-infrastructure/
Von Banania2020
Warum zahlen irische Häuser am meisten für Strom in Europa?
https://www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2025/0820/1529121-ireland-electricity-prices-europe-production-natural-gas-infrastructure/
Von Banania2020
16 Kommentare
Energy companies in Ireland
Why are Irish homes paying the most for [insert any product/service] in Europe?
Because we just accept it and continue to pay any price asked.
I remember hearing the Ireland had more km of grid per head of population than anywhere else in Europe. One off housing was blamed. Same thing at play with the national broadband. Every house gets a connection, and the cost is socialised.
What is Ireland energy matrix?
NIMBYs objecting to any improvement in infrastructure doesn’t help
For those who find articles too long to read:
1. We use more gas than others to generate electricity. Gas prices are high and volatile.
2. We have a widely spread and low density settlement pattern and this makes it more expensive to maintain energy infrastructure. That cost is reflected in bills.
I have actually just switched provider.
I had a call with SSE who refused to give me their new customer rate instead of the renewal one (10% more expensive). It took my less than 10 minutes to get a new contract with the competition …
No customer retention by design …
Because thr progressive Democrats (remember them?) Insisted that the ESB monopoly was anti competitive and was causing high prices.
They proceeded to open the market to the private sector but needed to hike the price to make it attractive to them.
Prices never came down after that.
TLDR?
PDs hiked prices to encourage competition so there would be low prices. Which never happened.
We get the Sparkling electricity piped in through Gold cables. It’s pricey but worth it for bragging on social media.
Data centers.
Probably data centres given they use 20% of the grid according to Google.
Bulldoze the countless rows of single story hovels in city centres and build flats🤘
We have too many energy companies selling electricity and gas when it should be all one company to ensure prices are fair. We are effectively paying for additional unnecessary layers of admin in 10+ companies and to ensure all of these companies run at a profit.
The PDs swore the free market was some kinda electric saint gonna bless us with cheap light and warm kettles. Anyone who thought ‚competition‘ would bring down electricity prices is probably too dim to spot a wooden pence.
Ireland has one of the best opportunities when it comes to wind energy but we are completely stifled by our NIMBYism planning laws.
I was recently in Malta and the amount of windmill farms near otherwise rocky coastlines was so impressive for a small nation.
A perfect example of us doing it wrong is a recent proposed battery storage facility in Cork that got refused due to local outrage, When we can’t even build a battery storage facility this is the result, we can’t have our cake and eat it too.
Farmers will milk cows for as much milk as they can produce.
Article forgot to mention that data centre electricity usage in Ireland increases household electricity costs indirectly by driving up grid/network costs that are shared by all consumers 🤦♂️