Energy crossroads

Every story in this issue, bankruptcies, border-crossing expansions, shifting wind strategies, carries the same signal: the race to secure Ireland’s energy future is intensifying. It’s not just about adding more wind turbines or building interconnectors. It’s about influence, infrastructure, and who gets to steer the system as it grows more decentralised and vulnerable.

While headlines focus on falling bills or new links to the grid, the deeper story is one of consolidation, strategic exits, and security anxieties below the surface, both literally and politically. 

The centre of gravity is shifting. And in this period of strategic tension, it’s not the biggest players who will necessarily win, but those who see the system as a whole.