Energy UK is a lobbying organisation. It doesn't represent the consumer's interest. Its current CEO was a WWF staffer.
Knight is misleading. Economy7 was offered to consumers because of a predictable SURPLUS of power at night. Time-of-Day pricing is proposed to manage shortage.
Knight is misleading. Economy7 was offered to consumers because of a predictable SURPLUS of power at night. Time-of-Day pricing is proposed to manage shortage.
https://twitter.com/GBNEWS/status/1491135592830226434
The failure to make clear that fundamental difference is exactly the kind of disingenuous doublespeak that has got us to this point.
Where were these arguments in 2010? 2008? 2005? ...
https://twitter.com/GBNEWS/status/1489250641679556608
The idea that this problem is going to be easily solved by pumping a bit more gas and trying to get an unproven reactor technology commercialised is also misleading.
The problems are policy, capital, and politics.
The government is going to find it hard to undo their own work.
The problems are policy, capital, and politics.
The government is going to find it hard to undo their own work.
You may think I am being harsh, but it was *clear* eleven years ago that the entire industry was talking to itself about rationing.
And how great it would be.
And how great it would be.
Here is the full dialogue referred to, in 2011...
Could it be any clearer?
" 25% of all the power stations in the UK will shut by 2020. Almost half will disappear by 2030. And the decisions that government are going to make this year, about the way the energy market works, are crucial."
" 25% of all the power stations in the UK will shut by 2020. Almost half will disappear by 2030. And the decisions that government are going to make this year, about the way the energy market works, are crucial."
Spoiler: the government (three of them, in fact) made the wrong decisions.
"They've got to be the right decisions, to make sure that new generation stations are built."
If only people had listened, eh?
If only people had listened, eh?
"At the same time, our networks are now 50, 60 years old, and we need to be replacing, and modernising and smartening those, and there are decisions around those investments that are actually going to be made in 2011."
They weren't made.
They weren't made.
In short - Knight isn't telling Farage anything that wasn't known in 2011.
Coincidentally, I was telling him the same in 2011, too.
Coincidentally, I was telling him the same in 2011, too.
Between 2011 and 2020, UK generating capacity fell from 81.8 GW to 64.8 GW, with a significantly increased proportion of the latter being intermittent capacity.
Today's situation was clearly going to happen.
Today's situation was clearly going to happen.
Politicians simply could not destroy energy infrastructure fast enough.
https://twitter.com/aloksharma_rdg/status/1429458197597888516
They all wanted to be the ones who were remembered for destroying coal power, not as the ones who replaced it with meaningful -- reliable, affordable, continuous -- alternatives.
Because they really are very stupid people.
Because they really are very stupid people.
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