What would energy rationing mean for Ireland?

Published date29 June 2022
AuthorConor Pope
Publication titleIrish Times: Web Edition Articles (Dublin, Ireland)
The price of electricity and gas has gone through the roof over the past 12 months with many households worse over by well over €500 a year as a result of savage hikes in utility bills

But at least there has been no impact on the supply of energy to Irish homes.

Not yet.

Even six months ago talk of energy rationing would have been outlandish, but it is now being discussed in a serious way in the corridors of power across Europe, with Irish EU Commissioner Mairead McGuinness just one of the senior politicians raising the spectre of supply shortages for the coming winter in recent days.

The war in Ukraine and Russia's stranglehold on much of Europe's energy supply – particularly its gas – has revealed a weakness in the infrastructural systems across...

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