Last year almost 40% of our electricity in Ireland came from indigenous renewable clean energy.
The flipside of this is that the majority of our energy requirements were met by fossil fuels.
Dr Paul Deane - Senior Research Fellow at the MaREI Centre for Energy, Climate and Marine at UCC and Justin Moran, Head of Communications and Public Affairs for Wind Energy Ireland join The Last Word to discuss.
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