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Politics, climate change, electricity, wind energy, Galway hurling, cats and the need to prepare for the zombie apocalypse. All views my own. Retweets (or whatever they are here) not an endorsement.
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…..
Curious who might be the Dread Pirate Roberts of the Irish electricity system…..
Fencing, fighting, torture, revenge, giants, monsters, chases, escapes, true love, miracles—it's the Irish electric grid in September!
The September issue of "Irish Grid Monthly" is now available on our website. RESS, dispatch down, a new solar farm, and *so* *many* *records*!
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October 9, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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…..
Curious who might be the Dread Pirate Roberts of the Irish electricity system…..
Fantastic news! Record smashed with three and a half months to go!
On 8 September, total generation from solar farms in 2025 (all-island) has exceeded 1TWh, crossing a new milestone for solar in Ireland. 🎉
September 13, 2025 at 9:02 AM
Fantastic news! Record smashed with three and a half months to go!
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...
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...
PR6: Ireland’s chance to future-proof our electricity grid
Make Ireland’s grid investment plan deliver for the future
buildourgrid.ie
September 5, 2025 at 7:33 AM
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...
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...
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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
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.
carnewschina.com
August 27, 2025 at 11:06 AM
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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They will try to tell you, “Resistance is futile.” It is never so.
July 11, 2025 at 9:30 PM
They will try to tell you, “Resistance is futile.” It is never so.
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“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-...
www.newyorker.com/news/annals-...
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.
www.newyorker.com
July 12, 2025 at 10:38 AM
“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-...
www.newyorker.com/news/annals-...
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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.
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June 28, 2025 at 10:20 AM
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!
There's a few days left yet in the month before our in-depth monthly newsletter arrives July 1st. Sign up for free today!
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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!
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!
June 27, 2025 at 10:21 AM
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!
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!
Losing. To Tipp. Badly.
a man with a mustache sits on a yellow swing
ALT: a man with a mustache sits on a yellow swing
media.tenor.com
June 21, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Losing. To Tipp. Badly.
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...
Strange to see it coming from the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission!
www.businesspost.ie/article/irel...
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
www.businesspost.ie
April 15, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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...
Strange to see it coming from the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission!
www.businesspost.ie/article/irel...
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"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.
Colin from Portsmouth on the benefits system.
March 18, 2025 at 1:45 PM
"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.
Colin from Portsmouth on the benefits system.
Where on earth have you been all my life? Fantastic beer from the Dew Drop Inn brewery. Ordering by the caseload. #craftbeer #IrishCraftBeer
April 5, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Where on earth have you been all my life? Fantastic beer from the Dew Drop Inn brewery. Ordering by the caseload. #craftbeer #IrishCraftBeer
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/...
www.irishtimes.com/environment/...
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
www.irishtimes.com
April 5, 2025 at 12:59 PM
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/...
www.irishtimes.com/environment/...
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Congestion pricing is an unqualified triumph. One of the most immediately, strikingly successful public policies of my lifetime.
“The MTA as a whole is averaging 448K more public transit riders per day this year…The MTA ridership growth since congestion pricing went into effect is almost 50% larger than the total ridership of America’s next-largest subway system.” bettercities.substack.com/p/congestion...
Congestion Pricing is a Policy Miracle
Which is exactly why Trump wants to get rid of it
bettercities.substack.com
March 21, 2025 at 3:50 AM
Congestion pricing is an unqualified triumph. One of the most immediately, strikingly successful public policies of my lifetime.
Pints and politics this weekend. Strongly recommend this book by British journalist Ash Sarkar. Read it in a day, terrific political analysis.
March 8, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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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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… 🛻🚙🚚🚛🚌🚴♂️🚑
March 6, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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… 🛻🚙🚚🚛🚌🚴♂️🚑
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.
Fascinating story of the Christian gospels and teachings that got edited out and, in some ways, live on in Christian teaching. Great read.
March 5, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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.
Fascinating story of the Christian gospels and teachings that got edited out and, in some ways, live on in Christian teaching. Great read.
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.
No wonder these boys lose elections they should win.
Dems look like they're bidding on fascism at a silent auction
March 5, 2025 at 7:53 AM
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.
No wonder these boys lose elections they should win.
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February recap is now on our website. Read all about the greenest month the Irish grid has ever had! 🙌
www.greencollective.io/post/monthly...
www.greencollective.io/post/monthly...
Monthly Recap, February 2025
www.greencollective.io
March 4, 2025 at 10:44 AM
February recap is now on our website. Read all about the greenest month the Irish grid has ever had! 🙌
www.greencollective.io/post/monthly...
www.greencollective.io/post/monthly...
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for the healers working among the destroyers 🖤
March 4, 2025 at 2:19 AM
for the healers working among the destroyers 🖤
Every time this pops up in my timeline I’m basically useless for half an hour.
February 19, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Every time this pops up in my timeline I’m basically useless for half an hour.
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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...
More details and charts in our January review 🔋
www.greencollective.io/post/monthly...
Monthly Recap, January 2025
www.greencollective.io
February 7, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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...
More details and charts in our January review 🔋
www.greencollective.io/post/monthly...