Featured in Fruits of our labour – 03-2021

Timing is everything

For investment portfolios and for the entire renewables sector, diversity matters. A new independent study shows that by complementing Ireland’s onshore wind sector with greater volumes of large-scale solar, emissions are lower, curtailment decreases, and society potentially gains economically, to the tune of €21 per citizen. Conall Bolger, CEO of the Irish Solar Energy Association, reports on the power of daytime production.
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New analysis of the value solar delivers in Ireland is changing the way solar is viewed in the country. Crucially, it found that that the solar bid price, in the next auction of the Renewable Electricity Support Scheme (RESS), could be €8-13 higher per megawatt-hour than for onshore wind projects – and the cost to …

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