Despite an official admission that gas will be needed for renewable electricity back-up into the foreseeable future, new oil and gas exploration has been stopped. And continuing with the de-industrialising,…
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National Grid & The Hornsea Battery
The National Grid, however, are being deceitful by trying to persuade the public that storage schemes like this one will solve the problem of wind intermittency.
Massive Electricity Price Rises Expected as National Grid Confirms Gas is the Only Back-Up for Intermittent Renewables
As always with green punch-down lunacy, the poorest in society will be the hardest hit. Many people will be priced out of basic necessities they have always taken for granted…
Bill payers to fund £60bn Net Zero overhaul of National Grid
As the National Grid now admit this expenditure is only needed to connect wind farms in Scotland and offshore to the market, surely they should be made to pay for…
British Green Electricity Crisis – Britain Paid £9.72 / KWh to Keep the Lights On
Imagine receiving a quarterly household electricity bill of £10,000 – because this is the kind of money Britain’s Electricity System Operator paid last Wednesday, to prevent blackouts during the heatwave.
National Grid scheme to ration households’ power use at peak times
From Friday up to 1.4m households will be paid if they cut their normal electricity consumption at certain two-hour periods during the day, as an experiment to see how households’…
National Grid to lose Great Britain electricity role to independent operator
Government will therefore throw out the knowledge and skills built up over many years by electrical engineers who know what they are doing. In their place, we will probably end…
Renewable energy is a blackout risk, warns National Grid after chaos during biggest outage in a decade
From This is MONEY Company has downplayed the role of wind energy in the power cut In April a study warned renewable power sources could risk network’s ‘stability’ Half UK’s…
Whoa, windfarms in UK operate well below advertised efficiency
It’s damning, and published by a green group. The study cited by the BBC is from the John Muir trust of all places. This would be a good place to…
The Empire Strikes Out
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach I guess having electricity when you need it is sooooo last century … UK families will have to get used to “only using power when…
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