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Marcos Byrne on Strengthening Ireland’s Electricity Grid for a Renewable Future

Renewable Energy Ireland (REI) partnered with WLR FM in Waterford to host a 12-week series exploring key aspects of renewable energy throughout the autumn and early winter of 2025. In this episode, Marcos Byrne of Wind Energy Ireland joins the conversation to discuss Ireland’s electricity grid, the backbone of the energy system. The discussion explores how […]

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The price of imperfection

Over the next year or so you, and other Irish electricity consumers, will pay nearly one billion euro in imperfection charges. It’s one of the drawbacks of our electricity grid not being strong enough and it costs us hundreds of millions of euro each year. First, let’s start with explaining what imperfection charges are as

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