I wonder how quick the trees will be cut down for heating and cooking? (via Green Jihad)
Britain at risk of electricity rationing before general election
Britain risks electricity rationing by the next general election unless its fleet of ageing gas-fired power stations is urgently upgraded, a new report has warned.
More than a dozen of Britain’s gas-fired power stations are so old that they may not last until the end of the decade and key parts required to upgrade them take years to arrive on order, energy consultancy Watt-Logic said.
It called on Ed Miliband, the Energy Secretary, to face up to the threat amid growing concern over UK power supplies, which still rely largely on gas despite the expansion of renewables.
“Without urgent action to secure dispatchable generation and stabilise the gas network, the UK faces escalating risks of supply shortfalls and widespread system failures well before 2030,” the report warns.
Replacing reliable, dependable energy for unreliable “green” energy has worked wonders, eh?
About a third of the UK’s electricity is generated by gas-fired power plants – but on windless days, this proportion can double.
The gas plants are old and the UK is planning on shutting down 8 out of 10 nuclear power plants by 2030.
A spokesperson for the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero said: “The National Energy System Operator, has been clear the faster we decarbonise, the more secure we are.
“Gas will continue to play a key role in our energy system as we transition to clean, more secure, homegrown energy.
“That’s why we are also delivering the biggest upgrade to Great Britain’s electricity network in decades to deliver clean power by 2030 and beyond.”
OK, so, y’all over there in the UK just have to suffer till 2030. And then you’ll get new excuses.
As Green Jihad notes
Wind and solar generation capacity could be tripled, yet three times zero is still zero. Miliband understands that the genuine crises will only emerge after the upcoming election, so he’ll push to devastate the nation in the meantime, safe in the knowledge that he won’t bear the repercussions.
Funny thing is, the morons will still vote for the politicians who do this to the peasants.
The problem is that people won’t actually do anything (such as voting out the idiots) until they are actually hit by the consequences. Everything else is just someone else’s problem, someone else’s issue to worry about, not theirs. It has to be an actual hit to their wallet or lifestyle before they will do something. No planning, no foresight, nothing (not that different from this country). And then it’s too late.