Renewable energy - It’s time to plan rather than hope

The vast majority of energy consumed on this island, a figure of around 90%, is imported.

Translated into cash terms, that’s around €7bn every year, or, if you prefer your statistics to be more immediate, close enough to €1m leaving these shores every single hour.

As carbon resources become more expensive because of scarcity or increased extraction costs, those figures can go in only one direction.