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This is the best summary I could come up with:
Wind power generation temporarily exceeded the total demand for electricity in Ireland for the first time ever this week.
Though Storm Agnes brought strong winds across the country, it isn’t unusual for it to reach this level.
What was unusual was the fact that it surpassed the demand on Ireland’s electricity grid throughout the entire island for the first time.
That meant that some of the energy was exported to Britain and Ireland had to meet the rest of the demand using fossil fuels.
In August, the amount of energy generated by wind increased by 71 per cent when compared to the same month last year.
The latest figures mean that in total, Irish wind farms provided 32 per cent of the country’s power over the first eight months of 2023.
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That confused me in this summary. Looking at the actual article makes sense of that nonsense:
What? Why? Why tf would you have a cap on renewable energy percentage?
What changes?
Maybe the same issue as here in Germany, there are basically not the capacity in the electricity grid to being all this energy to the consumer.. In Germany the issue is, to bring the energy from the northern down to the south (direction to the alps), because there is basically no electricity line existing 😅