The Great Electricity Rip-Off

 Joe Duffy's show on Friday did a great job of highlighting the expensive electricity bills that many people are facing now :

https://www.rte.ie/radio1/liveline/podcasts/

Irish Energy Blog, Wind Aware Ireland and The Academy of Engineers have all been proven right, we warned long ago that society would be locked into high energy costs for many years because of the mad rush for wind energy at all costs. 

http://irishenergyblog.blogspot.com/2016/04/irelands-defunct-energy-plans.html

http://irishenergyblog.blogspot.com/2015/03/whats-in-your-electricity-bill-part-5.html

And it's not just because of the PSO Levy, wind energy drives up all of the system costs of electricity, such as network costs (more here).

The impact from high energy bills during a freezing winter may have a worse impact than Covid-19.