Windpower in Ireland

[Odsox]

At last Ireland has caught up with the rest of Europe (and possibly surpassed as well)
Last week it was announced that the Electricity company will buy you excess power at 9c per Kw, now yesterday the Energy Minister announced that for small scale wind generators the price paid for the next 3 years will be 19c per Kw
To put that into context ... at the moment I pay 16.38c for standard rate and 8.66c for night rate, and that's about to go down by 10%.
I think I will have to think some more about getting a turbine.

[TheGoodEarth]

I think I will have to think some more about getting a turbine.

...or move to France where they pay you 50c per kw.

[The Riff-Raff Element]

I think I will have to think some more about getting a turbine.

...or move to France where they pay you 50c per kw.

Not for much longer though. That was, to an extent, seed money to establish an industry - and it worked. The price will be dropping for new capacity, which is now cheaper to install as a reuslt of the incentives to put this in place along with domestic PV solar in quantity, but will still be above the highest peak-day tarrif of around 37 cents per kWh.

I did struggle to understand how this was making economic sense, but a fairly lengthy explanation of the macro economics of power genereation by a net-exporting para-statial electricity company (EdF) has been forthcoming. All is clear, and it has nothing to do with "eco-taxes."

But it would be a very long post and I hear a two-year-old calling

[Odsox]

but will still be above the highest peak-day tarrif of around 37 cents per kWh.

Is that how much your electricity costs in France?
Puts our 16.38c peak into perspective.

[The Riff-Raff Element]

but will still be above the highest peak-day tarrif of around 37 cents per kWh.

Is that how much your electricity costs in France?
Puts our 16.38c peak into perspective.

Ah, not exactly. Tarrifs in France are astoundingly complicated. The most common tarrif is about 8 cents per kWh during the day, 6.7 during the night, plus VAT at 19.6% and some local distribution taxes that add a few more %, so the final amounts are closer to 10 and 8.5 cents per kWh.

However, we are on a tarrif that has six seperate rates, three day rates and three night rates. We have blue, white and red tarrifs for each. EDF can nominate in a year at their choice 22 red days (v.expensive - day 37 cents, night 13 cents), 45 white days (prices as above) and the rest blue (3.9 cents and 3.1 cents).

They warn us the previous day on the next day's rate via a clever little box that is plugged into the mains. If you can bias your electricity usage away from the red and white days - as we can - you can save a fortune.



We're on a tarrif that