From the GWPF: Cold Winter Could Cause Britain’s Lights To Go Out
Emergency measures to prevent blackouts this winter have been unveiled by National Grid after Britain’s spare power capacity fell to just 4 per cent.
–Emily Gosden, The Daily Telegraph, 27 October 2014
The capacity crunch has been predicted for about seven years. Everyone seems to have seen this coming – except the people in charge.
–Andrew Orlowski, The Register, 10 June 2014
National Grid has warned that there has been a significant increase in the risk of electricity shortages and brownouts this winter after fires and faults knocked out a large chunk of Britain’s shrinking power station coverage. The grid operator admitted that in the event of Britain experiencing the coldest snap in 20 years – a 5 per cent chance – then electricity supplies would not be able to meet demand during two weeks in January.
–Tim Webb, The Times, 27 October 2014
The UK government will set out Second World War-style measures to keep the lights on and avert power cuts as a “last resort”. The price to Britons will be high. Factories will be asked to “voluntarily” shut down to save energy at peak times for homes, while others will be paid to provide their own backup power should they have a spare generator or two lying around.
–Andrew Orlowski, The Register, 10 June 2014
The warmunist agenda is much more dangerous than the warming with which they try to frighten us.
So Britain has decided to spend $billions on non-dispatchable wind power instead of reliable fossil fuel or Nuke power, and is now facing a crisis because they can’t cover their base load in times of high demand.
Oh deary, deary, dear.
Time to hold those politician responsible for this fiasco. Vote them out!
There are lessons here for the US, if we bother to pay attention.
Naw, we’ll be stupid and have to face this crisis too. That’s how we roll!
Walt, we in the US have an election very soon. To use a familiar Chicago (Daly political machine) expression, vote early…and often. Coda, And take note of your vote.
In Chicago, a Republican Congressional candidate did vote early last week, including for himself. And the vote machine registered all his votes for Democrats, including for his opponent rather than himself. Being a sentient being, the candidate noticed this before hitting submit. Tried again, same result. So calld ovr the poll officials, who after a denial stage took the machine off line. They concluded that particulr Chicago voting machine was ‘ahem’ out of calibration. Calibration of the rest? Of course not! O’Bummer at his Chicago best.
Needless to say, this garnered a fair bit of local press — but almost no national media attention.
Maryland also. Calibration you see.
BTW what happens to the grid if Bardarbunga goes?
All predicted and printed, back in 2004. It was all so obvious to anyone with more than a dozen brain cells. But Tony (Miranda) Blair could not see it, and neither could David (hug-a-husky) CaMoron.
Renewable Energy, Our Downfall.
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/05/25/renewable-energy-–-our-downfall
You will need a knowledge of astronomy to appreciate Blair’s nickname.
R
And thanks to president Obama’s
coal destruction…soon that will be the
U.S.
They obviously failed to install sufficient windmills.Ha ha
What will it be like reducing carbon emissions 80% to below 1998 levels?
Cheers
Roger http://www.rogerfromnewzealand.wordpress.com
But…..but the windmills will save us…..won`t they?
If not, the solar panels that the poor and the old subsidised will be our salvation. /Fe
Always look on the bright side of life-thanks Monty Python.
Will they drop the uninterrupted supply tax , if they can’t garantee supply? http://www.dutycalculator.com/dc/179833841/business-industrial/industrial-agricultural-machinery/device-for-controlling-distribution-of-electricity/import-duty-rate-for-importing-uninterruptible-power-supply-system-from-thailand-to-malaysia-is-15/
CAGWPC – Catastrophic Anthropomorphic Global Warming Policy Consequences
The Greenies will applaud a massive die off.
http://youtu.be/FS5CH-Xc0co
My feeling is that the UK will find a way to muddle through, probably with a good deal of luck involved.
Muddling through is what we do best!
Reblogged this on Public Secrets and commented:
This is where the cult of “Green energy” leads — brownouts and blackouts. By heavily subsidizing unreliable wind power and eschewing new coal and (until recently) nuclear facilities, Britain has to take draconian steps to avoid a climate-caused disaster: not warming, bit freezing to death in winter. And if the Enviro-radicals have their way in the US, we won’t be far behind.
Won’t happen I’m afraid. The lame legacy media want a juicy front page scare story so have cherry picked bits of the press release and most certainly haven’t bothered to actually read the report. National Grid have put an absolute worse case scenario in which is where we get the quoted reserve figure from. The odds of that scenario occurring are 100s to 1. There is plenty of back up generation in place so much as it would be nice to see Wayne Rooney’s big brother lookalike Ed Davey trying to explain his incompetence, not this winter. H/T to Richard North on eureferendum.com for bothering to actually read the 66 page report. Not that we haven’t had this headless chicken rubbish before. It was actually the strange calmness of Fallon being questioned on this subject that led North and Christopher Booker to delve further into the subject and unearth the diesel-powered Short Term Operating Reserve which never gets included in the quoted figures. However, if not this winter, then as we continue on the merry path of insanity to reduce our CO2 output by 80% – not the EU 40%, but the figure in the all party approved Climate Change Act and therefore legally binding – it is only a matter of time.
Gerry, if you continue to dig even deeper into actual reliable reserves you will becomea much less sanguine than you seem here.
May we suggest an all expenses paid (by you) long winter vacation in sunny Florida. Very low risk of freezing. And you will be able to continue to study the subject, since sunny Florida’s power is mainly from nucs and CCGT. Not a hurricane since 05 despite increasing extreme weather predictions, and its hurricane season is now about over for this year.
Freaking Euros could have the coldest winter in 300 years but come sumner they will be back at banning carbon and implementing any other insane policy one can think of. Why? Because they will blame the extreme cold on warming.
You people need a massive rectal cranial extraction.
That will require many fossil fueled tractors for that extraction.
“You people need a massive rectal cranial extraction.”
Send the doctor to Brussels, please.
Well – we got quilts.
Smiles from a tucked-up-position.
Auto
Dr Richard North, as usual, having the realistic, informed & non-panic run down on the situation…
http://www.eureferendum.com/blogview.aspx?blogno=85280
You could also move south like for example Greece.
or maybe not.
The first snow fell in Greece Friday, the 24th October 2014
So, how much of the capacity they are counting on is in intermittent renewables?
Freeze Dried Fraud
Dry Frozen Fraud?
Planning to buy a peddle powered genset for my wife the prepper. Should make a great Christmas present. She’s worried about staying warm if the power fails. I’ll set up the genset in a cold room, and she can keep me warm by powering the pellet stove while she stays in shape turning the peddles. Win-win.
[Before you do that, put the moderators first, right at the top of your will. Then, we get paid before everyone else. .mod]
Prime Minister David Cameron could give a speech . Something like this.
http://youtu.be/MkTw3_PmKtc
Or he could pay the £1.7bn EU surcharge demand.
I just listened to the BBC2’s Newsnight global warming debate, it sounded to me as if they are starting to soften position, but no back peddling, not yet but it can’t be far off
For domestic users they can buy A BBQ for cooking food, gas fires, (fed by bottled gas) coal, wood or coal lite fires, gas lamps. Sorry no TV, or hot water, (Unless it is run on a gas system) unless you have a system that heats the water too, say from a fire, solar panels or central oil heating. (So long it isn’t controlled by electricity) candlelight, no electric blankets back to hot water bottles. No neon lights, LED lights and torches should be OK. I can’t remember much of the war in London or Liverpool, but they used gas then more than they do now. (You could kill yourself with the type of gas they used) My paternal grandparents only had gas lights in the living areas, and non upstairs. We used candles upstairs in the bedrooms and bathroom. But I know electricity was cut down at certain times of the day. At least you won’t have to worry regarding refrigeration it will be cold enough, back to the old ice blocks? We never had a refrigerator until the mid sixties in UK. It is possible to get a gas run refrigerator and stove. Heating and cooling take the most drain on electricity, and heating water.
So get gassed. Petrol generators are OK, but expensive, and if you have no electricity from the grid, they are OK. It is just that they are very noisy. Best of luck, and it is now time to keep saying we told you so! I think it was Prof.Bob Carter who warned the Australian government, that no one has become prepared if the temps drop.
Anything is possible October 28, 2014 at 2:21 pm
While there seems to be some cooling occurring in the North Atlantic and North Pacific, that UNISYS chart looks wildly exaggerated to me.
This may provide a more realistic picture :
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Both SST’s sources are correct, but the difference is just the different time periods for comparing the anomalies. The one linked by NOAA is probably the least realistic because it is compared with one of the coldest SST periods in recent history. The simple reason why it is used is to exaggerate how warm the SST’s look. The SST’s that this anomaly is derived from are far from normal ocean surface temperatures.
Thanks – its obvious that efforts are being made to hide the facts about cooling SSTs, playing with color palettes is one way, playing with the reference period is clearly another.
One emergency measure might be to use an energy source that actually works.
I don’t think it will be a problem. The politicians will do a lot of hand wringing and blame their lack of preparedness on climate change. They do that everywhere. People will freeze and/or die and the politicians will make big speeches about the need for energy conservation and when the cold snap is past everybody will forget about it until next year. Its why the Brits are always surprised when it snows, but are always talking about the weather – or climate as it is these days.