Those power cuts...

[klondike]

Just look at my sig today...



Just shy of 40GW needed less thab 1GW of wind and just how much solar would you think we are getting?

https://www.gridwatch.templar.co.uk which is where I pull the numbers in my sig from says 3.34GW which surprises me but all renewables  are only a tad over 4%. That nasty unclean gas that they want to turn off is at 55%.

It's days like today when we are probably at risk.

I found that there are timetables drawn up for any rolling blackouts. It's nothing new as they were first produced in 2019. I'll have a look at putting something together that we can check to see what they are although I imagine if they have to be used we might have the data given out anyway. They are done by area which will need to be looked up before which schedule any given house is one.

[Ashy]

I can't help thinking it was not wise to demolish so many conventional large and local power stations.

[klondike]

It probably wasn't but they may have been coming to the end of their service life. There has been little investment in the grid yet now they want it to deliver all the energy we were getting from gas and oil eventually. There is little wonder they fear it will break with or without the assistance of Russian or Iranian hackers.

I don't doubt that the climate is changing it may well be our use of fossil fuels as so many scientists declare although I have seen an argument that if anybody wants a research grant  these days (which all scientist need) a mention of climate change sweetens the pot.