[talideon]

Yes, peat. Ireland does not have significant coal deposits, and our forests were chopped down for, amongst other things, our next door neighbour's collection of boats, which is part of how your ancestors likely ended up in Australia in the first place. That left peat as a fuel source up until recently.

We do not see the fact that we've been so dependent on it as a fuel source as a good thing.

[davedx]

Bleh. Meanwhile England has been cheering itself recently for going days/weeks without burning any coal for electricity...

[legooolas]

But burning a lot of natural gas instead. Still fossil fuel!

Current national grid status meters/graphs:

  http://www.gridwatch.templar.co.uk/

CCGT == "Combined cycle gas turbine"

[talideon]

A fair chunk of which gets piped over from Ireland these days.