Green hydrogen gas made from Irish renewable electricity fuelling heavy German industry may be a distant prospect, but a body of knowledge has been building that explores how this might work. Through this process, officials, energy companies, and academics have learned more about the wider challenges and solutions involved in building a fossil fuel-free energy system.  As detailed in part one, co-operation between the governments in Dublin and Berlin culminated in last year’s alignment between their then ministers in charge of energy, Eamon Ryan and Robert Habeck. This followed Germany’s scramble for alternatives to Russian natural gas. That momentum has…

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