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Letters to the Editor: Nuclear energy is far from inevitable

A reader responds to another letter-writer's concerns about nuclear power

Letters to the Editor: Nuclear energy is far from inevitable — A reader suggests that pursuing 'genuine renewable energy goals' would be better than accepting nuclear power as an inevitability. Picture: iStock

Thu, 21 Mar, 2024 - 00:59

Anne Bailey’s alarm about this country needing nuclear energy is unfounded (‘Nuclear power is unavoidable’ — Irish Examiner Letters, March 14). Ireland is rapidly transitioning from fossil fuel to renewable energy.

In 2022, wind produced over a third of Irish electricity. The ESB recently confirmed connection of one gigawatt of solar PV generation to the network: About a fifth of total peak demand, achieved less than two years after Ireland’s first solar farm of a strong pipeline under development, came on-stream.

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