Imagine a world in which all vehicles – bar a very few – were electric. If electric vehicles were relatively cheap to buy and to run, would there be good reason to see two-car households as a bad thing?

Would there be a need to control the number of car parking spaces in new apartment developments in order to get people to use public transport, cycle or walk? Some might say yes; others might think not.

We are still a long way from that scenario. For one thing, we lack the infrastructure to enable all car owners to charge their cars as needed. Whether we have the generating capacity to sustain a total transformation from hydrocarbon to all-electric transport is a very real issue. Put simply, we don’t.

But we can imagine a world in which Ireland would be powered by a net zero renewable energy system. With a combination of solar energy, offshore and onshore wind energy and interconnectors, Ireland could become energy self-sufficient – especially if we could have access to nuclear energy as a cheap and reliable part of our energy portfolio.

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