Britain's increasing reliance on "intermittent" renewable energy means that the country is facing an unprecedented supply crisis, a senior Ofgem executive has warned.
Andrew Wright, a senior partner at Ofgem and former interim chief executive, warned that households could be forced to pay extra to keep their lights on while their neighbours "sit in the dark" because "not everyone will be able to use as much as electricity as they want".
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Quick, somebody tell Rachel! Oh and Justin aka Gerald Butts (Who I think was teased as a young lad re: surname and is now taking out his revenge on all of Canada)
Does this mean that France will have to bring more Nukes on-line to keep the Pommies from freezing in the dark? Who says the French are ingrates for their liberation?
Are they at 50% unreliables by 2030? They just aren't doing it correctly; they need Brad Wall to lead the way #Firewall
I would love to look in Justin's ear to see the other side of the room.
Our own Brad wall has even fallen for this bale of feathers. As Kevin says, we're to lead the way down the garden path to our reliably unreliable 50% renewable sources of electricity. Our provincial rulers are right to refuse the carbon tax, but what they're planning is just about as bad. The scary part is that our opposition party is even worse. I don't know whether to prepare myself for what's coming by just lying down or bent over. Some days I'm glad I'm old.
Given the way the UK charges residents for heat and power (put the shilling in the meter hasn't gone away), one can expect a fair few native British seniors will die of hypothermia. Which will, of course, free up the benefits they would have been given so that the powers-that-be can redistribute same to the invaders.
I don't know whether to prepare myself for what's coming by just lying down or bent over.
If you live in a city then you don't have much choice.
If you're in a small town you can Go Galt and join the self employed alt-economy and substantially reduce the amount you give all governments in taxes, all legally. The remaining tax burden can usually be offset with grants and rebates. Like anything it gets easier with time. Any 'employees' pay the most tax; the system has you by the short hairs and all you can do is squirm.
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"in future rich customers will get reliable power, and everyone else won't". It really is all laid out plain as a wart on a nose. Suzuki will have 65 gigawatt Christmas displays, while the rest of us use dried dung to cook our nettle soup. I envision a future where if you so much as use a drop of fuel to light a cook fire, RCMP in official government Bugatti Veyrons will pull up and arrest you.
Sometime next year, if all goes well, a retired jet engine will be mounted on a flatbed trailer and taken to a coal-fired power plant in Delhi.
With the exhaust nozzle pointed at the sky, the engine will be placed near the smokestack and turned on.
As the engine roars to life, it will generate a nozzle speed of 400 metres per second (1,440km/h; 900mph), which is more or less the speed of sound.
The exhaust will create powerful updrafts that will, to put it simply, blast the emissions from the plant to higher altitudes, above a meteorological phenomenon called temperature inversion, where a layer of cold air is held in place by a warmer "lid" trapping smog.
The jet exhaust will act as a "virtual chimney", drawing in and transporting the smog, which makes Delhi's air some of the most toxic in the world. A single jet engine can deal with emissions from a 1,000 megawatt power plant.
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No what it means is they switch on the 52 diesel generators that have been installed a mile away from me,this is referred to as a Short Term Operating Reserve facility or STOR google it another mad idea from our mad government and even madder green advisors.
Britain, saving the planet so we in the US don't have to. Thank you!!
Freezing in the dark,powerless and starving..these do fine things to focus ones mind.
How did we get here.?
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Our effete elites are gonna learn the definition of that word.
Useless clueless twits, our completely incompetent "leaders" have lead us to ruin.
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Who's to blame? Seriously? Look in the mirror, look all around you. Everyone you see is to blame.
Every election, there is always the guy who offers you security, if we will voluntarily give up just a wee smidgen of unimportant personal liberty in return. Anyone who doesn't make such an offer is declared unelectable by Pravda the CBC. Without fail, the majority willingly trade freedom for security. Without fail we get neither.
Every election, 2 or 3 people demand that the leaders hold to principle. Then the super intelligent mob here at SDA says "oh but you have to compromise, you can't be a real leader if you are a social conservative, or are unwilling to give up on everything you say you believe in".
And you end up where we are today. The string of electoral compromises puts us in the sweet spot of eternal victory. #WINNING
"Green" energy is a regressive TAX on the poor and middle class. Period. The "green" elites don't give a shite about poor people ... only their idealized state of nirvana.
"Given the way the UK charges residents for heat and power (put the shilling in the meter hasn't gone away), one can expect a fair few native British seniors will die of hypothermia."
Shocking but true. I lived in the UK for many a year before returning to Canada in 2007. The deaths of elderly Britons from hypothermia in the winter (because they could not afford the cost of heat and light) routinely made the newspapers every year.
Does any government or agency in Canada keep stats on such deaths among our own seniors? I think they might be quite revealing. And depressing.