Irish Examiner view: Our energy grid gamble on when the next big one arrives

Urgent need to future-proof our energy system

Ireland looks set to be increasingly buffeted by more, and more powerful, storms which have the power to bring down significant portions of our electricity grid. File picture: Denis Minihane

When we consider Ireland’s energy needs — one of the topics of the week, as can be evidenced by discussions at the Oireachtas committee on housing and yesterday’s comprehensive Irish Examiner supplement on renewables — it pays us to look at the wider context.

In other words, what is happening in the rest of the world?