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by lawlessone 701 days ago
>Okay, that leaves 61% going to what?

Commercial maybe? I used to work in a Lidl and it was mentioned when they started automating their store lights inside and outside to turn off at night that it was taking a large load of the grid.

Lot's offices, SME's etc?

Warehouses? Not sure if they count as industrial or not.

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Of course. And metals smelters, and street lighting. Whatever. The point was that the fine article didn't care about that because it was a political hatchet job, rather than informing on how or why electric power is used in Ireland.