Hugh O'Neill

The Next Terrorist Attack And What Comes After (Updated)

Six months ago I wrote this post about “the next terrorist attack.” I republish it now (lightly updated) because my fear of this scenario has recently grown much greater.
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A stacked area chart of the electricity generation mix on the island of Ireland. There are seven fuel types: pumped storage, biomass, waste-to-energy, hydro, solar, wind, and gas. There is also a black line showing electricity demand. Footnote reads: All-island figures. Excludes domestic solar. Source: EirGrid, SEMO

Renewable generation and pumped storage equalled 42% of yesterday's electricity demand, with a peak of 58% at 13:30. Fossil fuel generation (mostly gas) equalled 48% of demand. 0% of generation was exported, 11% of demand was met by imports.

A stacked area chart of the electricity generation mix on the island of Ireland. There are eight fuel types: pumped storage, biomass, waste-to-energy, hydro, solar, wind, oil, and gas. There is also a black line showing electricity demand. Footnote reads: All-island figures. Excludes domestic solar. Source: EirGrid, SEMO

Renewable generation and pumped storage equalled 44% of yesterday's electricity demand, with a peak of 102% at 01:15. Fossil fuel generation (mostly gas) equalled 39% of demand. 7% of generation was exported, 23% of demand was met by imports.

A stacked area chart of the electricity generation mix on the island of Ireland. There are eight fuel types: pumped storage, biomass, waste-to-energy, hydro, solar, wind, oil, and gas. There is also a black line showing electricity demand. Footnote reads: All-island figures. Excludes domestic solar. Source: EirGrid, SEMO

Renewable generation and pumped storage equalled 65% of yesterday's electricity demand, with a peak of 87% at 05:15. Fossil fuel generation (mostly gas) equalled 29% of demand. 4% of generation was exported, 9% of demand was met by imports.

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A stacked area chart of the electricity generation mix on the island of Ireland. There are eight fuel types: pumped storage, biomass, waste-to-energy, hydro, solar, wind, oil, and gas. There is also a black line showing electricity demand. Footnote reads: All-island figures. Excludes domestic solar. Source: EirGrid, SEMO

Renewable generation and pumped storage equalled 27% of yesterday's electricity demand, with a peak of 39% at 02:30. Fossil fuel generation (mostly gas) equalled 45% of demand. 0% of generation was exported, 28% of demand was met by imports.

A stacked area chart of the electricity generation mix on the island of Ireland. There are seven fuel types: pumped storage, biomass, waste-to-energy, hydro, solar, wind, and gas. There is also includes a black line showing electricity demand. Footnote reads: All-island figures. Excludes domestic solar. Source: EirGrid, SEMO

Renewable generation and pumped storage equalled 50% of yesterday's electricity demand, with a peak of 67% at 14:00. Fossil fuel generation (mostly gas) equalled 44% of demand. 1% of generation was exported, 7% of demand was met by imports.

A stacked area chart of the electricity generation mix on the island of Ireland. There are seven fuel types: pumped storage, biomass, waste-to-energy, hydro, solar, wind, and gas. There is also includes a black line showing electricity demand. Footnote reads: All-island figures. Excludes domestic solar. Source: EirGrid, SEMO

Renewable generation and pumped storage equalled 61% of yesterday's electricity demand, with a peak of 73% at 03:15. Fossil fuel generation (mostly gas) equalled 32% of demand. 2% of generation was exported, 9% of demand was met by imports.

A stacked area chart of the electricity generation mix on the island of Ireland. There are seven fuel types: pumped storage, biomass, waste-to-energy, solar, wind, oil, and gas. There is also includes a black line showing electricity demand. Footnote reads: All-island figures. Excludes domestic solar. Source: EirGrid, SEMO

Renewable generation and pumped storage equalled 12% of yesterday's electricity demand, with a peak of 25% at 14:00. Fossil fuel generation (mostly gas) equalled 57% of demand. 0% of generation was exported, 31% of demand was met by imports.

A stacked area chart of the electricity generation mix on the island of Ireland. There are seven fuel types: pumped storage, biomass, waste-to-energy, hydro, solar, wind, and gas. There is also includes a black line showing electricity demand. Footnote reads: All-island figures. Excludes domestic solar. Source: EirGrid, SEMO

Renewable generation and pumped storage equalled 9% of yesterday's electricity demand, with a peak of 18% at 14:00. Fossil fuel generation (mostly gas) equalled 62% of demand. 0% of generation was exported, 29% of demand was met by imports.

A stacked area chart of the electricity generation mix on the island of Ireland. There are seven fuel types: pumped storage, biomass, waste-to-energy, hydro, solar, wind, and gas. There is also includes a black line showing electricity demand. Footnote reads: All-island figures. Excludes domestic solar. Source: EirGrid, SEMO

Renewable generation and pumped storage equalled 21% of yesterday's electricity demand, with a peak of 30% at 04:45. Fossil fuel generation (mostly gas) equalled 53% of demand. 0% of generation was exported, 26% of demand was met by imports.

Motherfucking wind farms…

A stacked area chart of the electricity generation mix on the island of Ireland. There are eight fuel types: pumped storage, biomass, waste-to-energy, hydro, solar, wind, oil, and gas. There is also includes a black line showing electricity demand. Footnote reads: All-island figures. Excludes domestic solar. Source: EirGrid, SEMO

Renewable generation and pumped storage equalled 36% of yesterday's electricity demand, with a peak of 64% at 15:45. Fossil fuel generation (mostly gas) equalled 54% of demand. 0% of generation was exported, 10% of demand was met by imports.

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A stacked area chart of the electricity generation mix on the island of Ireland. There are seven fuel types: battery, pumped storage, biomass, hydro, solar, wind, gas, and waste-to-energy. The chart also includes a black line showing electricity demand. Footnote reads: All-island figures. Excludes domestic solar. Battery discharge data not yet available. Source: EirGrid, SEMO

A stacked area chart of the renewable electricity generation mix on the island of Ireland. There are four fuel types: biomass, hydro, solar, wind. The y axis indicates the percentage of demand being met by each source. Footnote reads: All-island figures. Excludes domestic solar. Source: EirGrid, SEMO

72.3GWh yesterday from wind, solar, biomass, and hydro was equal to 68.3% of the island's 105.9GWh of electricity demand.

In other words: the best ever July day for renewable generation in Ireland 🏅

All day long, these four sources were supplying >50% of demand.

A line chart of monthly grid carbon intensity in Ireland from 2019 through June 2025. The x-axis runs January-December and there is one line for each year. The general trend is downwards, with 2025 generally noticeably lower than previous years. Footnote reads: All-island figures. Source: EirGrid, SEMO

We just had the greenest June ever for Irish electricity, with carbon emissions falling below 600,000 tonnes in any single month for the very first time 🥇

Our full report is now available for free to subscribers!

Refreshing

A chart of monthly renewable generation in June months from 2019 through 2025. A bar chart indicating GWh is overlaid on a line chart indicating renewable generation vs demand. The bar for June 2025 is a paler colour to indicate that data is incomplete because the month is not yet over. All-island figures. Renewables comprise wind, hydro, solar, and biomass. Excludes domestic solar. Source: EirGrid, SEMO

Renewable generation in Ireland has exceeded 1TWh for the first time ever in a June month. That's equal to more than 35% of the island's electricity demand.

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A stacked area chart of the electricity generation mix on the island of Ireland. There are eight fuel types: battery, pumped storage, biomass, hydro, solar, wind, gas, and other fossil fuels. The chart also includes a black line showing electricity demand. Footnote reads: All-island figures. Excludes domestic solar. Source: EirGrid, SEMO

A stacked area chart of the renewable electricity generation mix on the island of Ireland. There are six fuel types: battery, pumped storage, biomass, hydro, solar, wind. The y axis indicates the percentage of demand being met by each source. Footnote reads: All-island figures. Excludes domestic solar. Source: EirGrid, SEMO

A tree map of the electricity mix on the island of Ireland. There are are four categories: renewables (comprising biomass, hydro, solar, wind); storage (comprising batteries and pumped storage); fossil fuels (comprising coal, gas, oil, and waste-to-energy); and imports. Larger sources are annotated with the GWh and percentage of demand fulfilled by that source. Footnote reads: All-island figures. Excludes domestic solar. Source: EirGrid, SEMO

We've just had two record-breaking days in a row for Irish solar:
- on Wednesday, solar farms produced 8.1GWh, a new one-day record
- on Thursday, solar farm output reached 861MW, a new high

On these strong days, solar farms are fulfilling about 7% of electricity demand with peaks of about 20% ☀️🔎

Ireland: 89 data centres now, 40 more in the pipeline.
"Adding more data centres in Ireland is likely to threaten our ability to meet legally binding climate targets."
– Revealing & concerning investigative journalism & mapping by @conorocarroll.bsky.social & the @investigates.thejournal.ie team.

The image features a preview of an upcoming article on The Journal. The headline reads Where are all the data centres and why should you care?

Coming just after midnight tonight...something a bit different, but very cool!

An interactive, visual investigation that maps - for the first time - all operating and planned data centres in Ireland.

Out soon on thejournal.ie

A stacked area chart of the electricity generation mix on the island of Ireland. There are six fuel types: pumped storage, biomass, hydro, solar, wind, and fossil fuels. There is also includes a black line showing electricity demand. Footnote reads: All-island figures. Some sources are estimated. Excludes domestic solar. Source: EirGrid, SEMO

Renewable generation and pumped storage equalled 54% of yesterday's electricity demand, with a peak of 69% at 00:00. Fossil fuel generation (mostly gas) equalled 27% of demand. 0% of generation was exported, 19% of demand was met by imports.

A stacked area chart of the electricity generation mix on the island of Ireland. There are six fuel types: pumped storage, biomass, hydro, solar, wind, and fossil fuels. There is also includes a black line showing electricity demand. Footnote reads: All-island figures. Some sources are estimated. Excludes domestic solar. Battery data not yet published. Source: EirGrid, SEMO

A stacked area chart of the renewable electricity generation mix on the island of Ireland. There are six fuel types: battery, pumped storage, biomass, hydro, solar, wind. The y axis indicates the percentage of demand being met by each source. Footnote reads: All-island figures. Excludes domestic solar. Battery data not yet published. Source: EirGrid, SEMO

Fine Bank Holiday weather!

Yesterday, wind generation exceeded 4GW (about 95% of electricity demand at the time) for the first time in a June month, smashing the previous all-time high of 3.5GW set last year.

Fossil fuels also dropped below 1GW last night; grid carbon intensity numbers to follow!

A stacked area chart of the electricity generation mix on the island of Ireland. There are six fuel types: pumped storage, biomass, hydro, solar, wind, and fossil fuels. There is also includes a black line showing electricity demand. Footnote reads: All-island figures. Some sources are estimated. Excludes domestic solar. Source: EirGrid, SEMO

Renewable generation and pumped storage equalled 63% of yesterday's electricity demand, with a peak of 96% at 16:15. Fossil fuel generation (mostly gas) equalled 34% of demand. 11% of generation was exported, 14% of demand was met by imports.

A stacked area chart of the electricity generation mix on the island of Ireland. There are six fuel types: pumped storage, biomass, hydro, solar, wind, and fossil fuels. There is also includes a black line showing electricity demand. Footnote reads: All-island figures. Some sources are estimated. Excludes domestic solar. Source: EirGrid, SEMO

Renewable generation and pumped storage equalled 67% of yesterday's electricity demand, with a peak of 87% at 17:15. Fossil fuel generation (mostly gas) equalled 35% of demand. 6% of generation was exported, 4% of demand was met by imports.

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A vital new environmental campaign, SAVE OUR SPRAT, was recently launched to fight the industrial pillage of Bantry Bay's sprat population for fish farm feed.

This is what the very best of local communities coming together to fight for wild nature looks like.

Please follow and support them!! 🙏

A stacked area chart of the electricity generation mix on the island of Ireland. There are six fuel types: pumped storage, biomass, hydro, solar, wind, and fossil fuels. There is also includes a black line showing electricity demand. Footnote reads: All-island figures. Some sources are estimated. Excludes domestic solar. Source: EirGrid, SEMO

Renewable generation and pumped storage equalled 39% of yesterday's electricity demand, with a peak of 49% at 16:30. Fossil fuel generation (mostly gas) equalled 33% of demand. 0% of generation was exported, 28% of demand was met by imports.

The new Save Our Sprat campaign will be holding a public demonstration in Bantry Square at 11am on Friday (day after tomorrow), calling for a moratorium on sprat fishing in Irish waters.

I'll be there, can you come along too? The more, the better!! ✊️✊️✊️
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Radio Free Europe 2025 5-track EP on digital and vinyl formats.

“decide yourself” – Thank you, R.E.M. This support of Radio Free Europe is incredibly touching.
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