Prof Aoife M. Foley✓

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RT @EnergyCloud_org: £1 billion of renewable energy wasted in Northern Ireland since 2021 EnergyCloud is working with partners to use some of this waste to tackle #fuelpoverty @NIElectricity @soni_ltd @BudgetEnergy @clickenergychat #ShareEnergy @sseairtricity

RT @PlymouthMarine: Oh buoy 😕 Storm Austen giving our L4 autonomous buoy a bit of a shake up this morning! #StormAusten #Plymouth #UK #MarineScience More info about the buoy below 👇

RT @JamesMelville: Northern Lights in North East Fife last night.

RT @UKERCHQ: Today's Energy News: Chancellor plans intervention to help poorer UK households with rising energy bills ORE Catapult identifies 21 cost reduction factors for UK floating offshore wind ‘Labour must take urgent action to reduce business energy bills’ 👉

RT @albertdolan_: The State Needs to Spend Better Check out the site: and read about how we got here and what's next:

Galway East TD Albert Dolan and TPSA have just launched tracking over €108 billion in public spending. Discover where your money goes

RT @irishexaminer: Government forecast to record €1.4bn Exchequer deficit, according to pre-budget White Paper

RT @Niall_Sargent: NEW: The HSE has rejected a request from National Screening Service for funding to hire 20 expert staff badly needed at the CervicalCheck lab. There is currently only staffing capacity at the €20m lab to handle 25% of samples. The rest still go abroad.

RT @XEnergyIreland: @18for0 have created a new live dashboard that is a 'one-pager' and has everything including easy to read charts in one place. A much better design than Eirgrid's own dashboard. Check out their grid dashboard here; (@18for0 advocates for nuclear power in Ireland. Their stated goal is "A credible, evidence-based plan for Ireland to achieve net zero emissions by 2050" ) However you feel about nuclear, one thing is certain, our current plan totally lacks credibility, or evidence!

RT @iain_staffell: Wind and solar now supply 40% of Britain's electricity demand. What a remarkable change has been made over the last decade!  That puts us ahead of most major world economies. A bit of positive news for your weekend read at Electric Insights:

RT @Economy_NI: Economy Minister Dr @CArchibald_SF has welcomed new figures showing the Northern Ireland economy grew by 1.0% in the second quarter of 2026, reaching a new series high. 🔗

A gentle reminder for the timeline today: manners and kindness cost absolutely nothing, but they can mean everything to someone in a moment of difficulty. Especially here in X, or as I still call it Twitter. I will not be moved. Free speech and respect go hand in hand. 💙 #MannersMatter #BeKind

RT @RTELateLateShow: Siobhán McSweeney speaks from the heart about Bessborough in Cork, and the importance of remembering its history ❤️ #LateLate

RT @Economy_NI: 🎦WATCH: Economy Minister Dr @CArchibald_SF has announced that households in the north will receive a £63 discount on their electricity bills this year through the Household Electricity Discount Scheme. ✅No forms ✅No applications ✅No action required The discount will be applied automatically by electricity suppliers. Read more ➡️ @ConsumerCouncil @niexecutive @NIElectricity @NICVA @nihecommunity @nidirect @fuelpovertyni @NI_LGA @NUS_USI @disabilityni @RuralCommNet

RT @VirginMediaNews: A real "wake-up call for the Government"? Plans for a data centre in Killala, Co Mayo, have been blocked because they go against Ireland’s climate policy. More on Virgin Media PLAY

RT @UKERCHQ: Today's Energy News: 2026 ‘record year’ for UK rooftop solar installations, as Iran war hikes energy prices Electricity discount to be paid to NI households Public support for UK energy transition is weakening Read more:

RT @nialljburke: Delighted to be on the opening panel at the European Mining Summit in Helsinki next Wednesday, 23 September, moderated by @DSBatten. This short explainer sets out the ground I'll be arguing from: what a co-located, dispatch-optimised load actually does to curtailed wind, how much it can absorb at 20 to 30 MW, and where the honest limits sit.

RT @TonightVMTV: 🗣️ “Is [MetroLink] worth building for €17.5b? We’re talking about one line for €17.5b. 🗣️ "How many Luas lines would you build for that? You'd probably build six or seven."  #TonightVMTV

RT @AoifeMFoley: Targeted interventions can give people a fairer, better energy support system Note for this budget in Ireland @DeptCEE @DarraghOBrienTD @jackfchambers @IRLDeptFinance @SimonHarrisTD Use BER + income to identify where energy costs bite hardest, which homes should be retrofitted first, where hot water or storage-heating controls can help, and where electricity demand is likely to rise. One building rating can support better household protection, better use of public money, better retrofit targeting and better grid planning. Will also be fairer and can also be used for Kerosene! That is the opportunity for @Dept_ECC, SEAI, CRU, EirGrid, ESB Networks and @ChambersIreland.

Great article but Ireland’s energy transition: the wolf in sheep’s clothing 🧵 1/ Wind and solar are essential, but weather-dependent. Nuclear can provide firm, low-carbon power. A resilient grid needs a balanced mix of renewables, dependable generation, storage and interconnection—not just more installed capacity. 2/ Data centres need reliable 24/7 electricity. Like other large industrial users. Keeping them online requires firm energy, balancing, frequency control, inertia, voltage support and grid reinforcement. These are real costs, not accounting details. 3/ Enter the cap-and-floor model. Revenue floors can reduce interconnector investment risk; caps limit retained revenues under the scheme’s rules. But who ultimately bears the downside, and who benefits from the upside? And they like to whiff of renewables and it’s proved a good business model. 4/ Merchant development fragments the system into privately financed assets: interconnectors, batteries, LDES and grid services. Each pursues its own revenue streams, while the electricity system must coordinate the whole. Revenue stacking can be efficient—but overlapping subsidies and socialised costs need scrutiny. 5/ Here’s the danger: private investors secure regulatory support, data centres secure the power they need, and households and SMEs may absorb part of the wider network and system costs through electricity prices and regulated charges. The actual allocation must be demonstrated, not assumed. 6/ Nuclear, wind, solar, storage and interconnection should be planned as one integrated system. Firm low-carbon generation can complement renewables; storage shifts energy through time; interconnectors share resources across borders. None replaces the need for proper grid engineering. 7/ If large energy users drive new infrastructure demand, they should bear an appropriate share of the costs. If the public helps de-risk private investment, consumers should receive transparent, measurable benefits in return. The wolf in sheep’s clothing isn’t clean energy. It’s a fragmented development model that can privatise returns while spreading risks and costs across the public. Ireland needs a dependable, low-carbon electricity system—not a blank cheque for investors or an assumption that households will pick up the tab. 🧵👇🧐 Just a few thoughts and observations.