Our Energy Policy Relies On A Wing And A Prayer
JANUARY 7, 2024
By Paul Homewood
One of our colleagues wrote to his local MP last month:
I’m sorry keep harping on about this, but don’t you find these Gridwatch figures for last night extremely worrying?
In spite of all our foreign owned wind turbines, on and off shore, they were producing less than 1GW with demand of 38GW. Solar produced zilch. Gas nuclear coal and biomass were all practically flat out.
Gas was heavy lifting 24GW of generation. Do you have any idea what a replacement 24GWh battery would look like or cost? How long it would last for and how would you propose to charge it?
The system is broken.
National Grid are currently paying people not to use electricity at peak times. Your government is paying people thousands of pounds in subsidies and tax breaks to change to electric cars and £7500 to install heat pumps. Electricity companies are actively encouraging people to use less of the product they sell- can you name any other business that does that?
Do you have any idea what the electricity demand is going to be in 2035 when gas and oil boilers, and petrol and diesel cars are banned?
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