Breaking down the fuel crisis, with Professor Aoife Foley

We are in a fuel crisis, “the worst the world has ever seen”,
according to Tánaiste Simon Harris. But what does that mean for
the ordinary person, how did we get to here – and what’s going to
happen next?


Professor Aoife Foley is chair in Net Zero Infrastructure at the
University of Manchester. She has written for the Irish
Examiner recently on how the Government can support consumers and
businesses through this crisis – without damaging the economy.


While she favours targeted energy supports for at-risk households
and the farming, pharma and transport sectors, she believes that
universal payments such as those given during the Ukraine energy
crisis would be disastrous for the economy.


“It needs to be very, very targeted. It can't be the blanket
approach because they need to look at the checks and balances.
And that's the key thing - the other thing as well is we really
need to focus on onshore and what we can do onshore."


She says Ireland must now prioritise onshore wind, repowering
ageing wind infrastructure, and conduct an inventory of all gas
and oil industry stocks and stores across all of the UK and
Ireland.


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