By Paul Homewood
h/t Philip Bratby
Back-up power generators have started to arrive in Ireland to help it keep the lights on during the next few winters.
The mobile turbines, described as “effectively jet engines”, are set to be installed in areas including Dublin and nearby County Meath.
The €350m (£308m) temporary capacity was ordered by environment minister Eamon Ryan last year as a “last resort”, after regulators flagged a looming shortfall in generation.
“This is an electricity emergency,” minister of state Ossian Smyth told its parliament in October.
“It is a national scandal,” retorted Darren O’Rourke, the Teachta Dála for Meath East.
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Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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