WIND IS GUARANTEED IRISH, SECURE & SHOWS IRISH LEADERSHIP
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Irish Wind is an Indigenous Guaranteed Irish Energy supply made here in Ireland, and available whenever the wind blows.
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Wind is reducing our 85% dependence on imported energy. Today we are one of the most dependent countries in the whole EU, forced to import our energy from foreign sources. We are over 30% behind the EU average lagging behind only Cyprus, Malta and Luxembourg in the scale of our energy imports.
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Irish Wind which is captured here in Ireland can protect and cushion Irish consumers from foreign energy price shocks from Russia to the Middle East.
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Ireland saves money (over €1 billion in the last 5 years) on wind energy though from cutting down on expensive fossil fuel imports, in 2014 wind energy alone saved us over €200m on fossil fuel payments.
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Ireland is a renewable energy leader, we were recently recognised by the US based Earth Policy Institute as being fourth in the world for wind energy leadership, ahead of the US, UK and China.
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Wind energy has one characteristic that makes it very attractive in a world of highly volatile fuel prices: its costs are known. When you install a wind turbine, you know what it will cost you and although the output is variable, you know approximately how much energy it will produce over a period of years. Therefore, this source is more reliable price wise and wind energy can be used to hedge against fluctuations in volatile fossil fuel prices.
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