Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance) | Oireachtas source

The thread of these questions continues so I might take up where I left off. A major concern is that private wind energy companies is not the best way to invest our money in terms of developing renewable energy. In an article in The Irish Times, which the Minister probably read, Dr. Anthony White, who is the co-founder of BW Energy and is a low carbon and power market specialist, stated:

If wind power is so cheap, why does it need special treatment, in the form of guaranteed feed-in tariffs, and why are Ireland's household power prices today 20 per cent higher than the European average?

If it is so "green", why have Ireland's CO₂emissions per kWh from power generation actually increased since 2009.

Those are serious questions.

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