Moneypoint

State-owned energy group reports pretax profits of €338m last year

Fossil fuel use in sectors a threat to Ireland’s long-term green energy goals, authority says

Everyone, homeowners and businesses, needs to start producing their own electricity

Consumers will ultimately pay for Government’s logic-defying energy policies

Climate advisory body says lack of plans to decarbonise a major obstacle to new policy

Organisation says measure will not work if people feel climate-action responsibility is being pushed onto individuals

Economic growth and data centres fuel need for expanded electricity transmission system

‘Second Shannon scheme’ could be an offshore wave-power station off the Clare coast with a future extension off Kerry’

Chairman says without higher price on carbon, Irish CO2 emissions will continue to rise

Event marks 30th anniversary of UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

So what can Ireland do to reduce CO2 release given that 97 per cent of the energy we use comes from carbon fuels

More solar farms and bioenergy but no decision on nuclear power or banning fracking

Moneypoint in Co Clare is Ireland’s largest single source of CO2

Grid West and North-South link cannot use the same system

€400m power station and 680,000-strong customer base sold to Centrica for €129m

Supporters say nuclear energy would give us a chance of meeting emissions targets