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womble2today at 11:35 AM1 replyview on HN

Not only has the UK not stopped building wind, they have over 30GW of installed wind capacity and sell electricity to Ireland for most of the year.


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talideontoday at 1:04 PM

The 'sell electricity to Ireland' bit here is doing an awful lot of work. It's more complicated than that.

For those who don't know, Ireland operates an all-island grid, and EirGrid (the grid operator for the Republic) owns SONI (the grid operator for Northern Ireland). That means that 'UK' and 'Ireland' in this has a large Northern Ireland shaped lump of ambiguity that statement.

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