How much ‘tricity from Solar? Hydro? Hamster Wheels?
So funny. Have to love those idiot brits.
heavy sarcasm
“UK Grid Operator Asks Coal Plants To Be Available For Backup”
Did the coal plant owners explain to the “UK Grid Operator” that Greta made them TEAR DOWN their coal power plants?
Coal and Nat Gas will be needed for the foreseeable future. Unless Green Energy nutjobs want to freeze to death in the winter.
France as an example is ~80% nuclear-generated electricity. And, ~20% coal/nat gas power. Why? Because nuclear power plants are a constant output source. The coal/nat gas is needed to meet demand surges.
Isn’t coal a no-no fossil fuel? Shame on the UK. Did they consult with the Swedish meatball?
HOW DARE YOU!!
Big wind
and Big sun
when winter comes
can’t get it done
“low wind speeds” is often mentioned, but rarely do you see other wind problems, such as “high winds” which cause shut-downs, or shut-downs of wind farms following single incidents such as fire, etc.
what a scam.
Green Energy vs Freezing. No contest.
Coal Plants back online.
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😱😱😱😱😱 not coal !!!!!!!!!!!!!
This problem is due to decades of a lack of public investment in new Nuclear Power Plants (NPPs). The current Conservative government dropped the ball on building them since 2010 and the previous Labour government (1997-2010) screwed it up too.
Tony Blair even made a speech while he was Prime Minister back in 2005 explicitly stating that we needed to build new NPPs or else we would be facing huge energy bills in the 2020s. 17 years later and what do we have? No new NPPs online and record energy bills!
It’s a real shame that Blair did not act on his prediction back then. If they had started building NPPs before 2010 (with backing from British tax-payers rather than expecting industry to meet all the costs) then they would all be online by now.