A top line article but worth a read
https://cleantechnica.com/2023/05/16/th ... stability/
Grid stability services
Grid stability services
Tesla Model 3 Performance
Oversees an 11kWp solar array at work
Oversees an 11kWp solar array at work
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Thought I would post here instead of another new link as it is related.
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/money/other/n ... 3078&ei=30
More hyperbolae from ministers who don't understand what they are doing perhaps or a timely slap for the national grid to improve - I will let you decide.
For my mind the former is more likely than the latter especially after reading the disgraceful piece yesterday where the environment minister is bleating thats she's fed up of the water companies when its her and her cronies who instruct OFWAT to keep the bills down and have for the past 30 years not allowed water companies to invest where they needed to in order to provide the Rolls Royce service every one seems to expect.
Its a fact of life - if you pay budget prices you get a budget service just like if you vote for idiots you get a third rate country with third rate policies. I didn't hear the environmental minister moaning about the Thatcher era decision to sell of nationalised utilities that were subsequently asset stripped which leaves us in the terrible position we now see ourselves .
Moxi
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/money/other/n ... 3078&ei=30
More hyperbolae from ministers who don't understand what they are doing perhaps or a timely slap for the national grid to improve - I will let you decide.
For my mind the former is more likely than the latter especially after reading the disgraceful piece yesterday where the environment minister is bleating thats she's fed up of the water companies when its her and her cronies who instruct OFWAT to keep the bills down and have for the past 30 years not allowed water companies to invest where they needed to in order to provide the Rolls Royce service every one seems to expect.
Its a fact of life - if you pay budget prices you get a budget service just like if you vote for idiots you get a third rate country with third rate policies. I didn't hear the environmental minister moaning about the Thatcher era decision to sell of nationalised utilities that were subsequently asset stripped which leaves us in the terrible position we now see ourselves .
Moxi
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Would that be the same Margaret Thatcher that started the process of closing the coal stations and the "dash for gas" which means we are now in the position of having virtually zero coal generation on the grid and lots of flexible gas stations to cope with the fluctuations or intermittency of wind generation?
She wasn't all bad, she "got" climate change/ global warming before most other politicians ......
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Yeah thats the lady, the same one that ruled that the magnox fleet should be run over maximum and who filled up all the spent fuel ponds at Sellafield and at the stations ponds with spent fuel that is only now being recovered and has cost the UK billions in clean up just so she could stick it to the militant coal miners. Don't get me wrong there were some benefits but I sincerely doubt that she was thinking of any of that at the time and it has been admitted by the Tories that it was all about the state being unable to pay for the investments required in the nationalised industries and of course the other "main mob" in opposition have to shoulder their portion of the blame for underinvestment as well lest anyone feel party lines are being called - they aren't- they are all equally tarnished with the same short termism political agenda that our political system seems to excel in producing.
Like I said, politicians need to be upfront with the nation, if we want Rolls Royce services then we need to pay taxes proportional to that and the government need to ensure the service is delivered. If we are happy with botch it and make do and mend then the taxes we pay at present seem, by extension, to be about right but dont try to claim political points by pointing at the private sector as failing and which is hamstrung and guided to oblique targets through government appointed quango's.
Moxi
Like I said, politicians need to be upfront with the nation, if we want Rolls Royce services then we need to pay taxes proportional to that and the government need to ensure the service is delivered. If we are happy with botch it and make do and mend then the taxes we pay at present seem, by extension, to be about right but dont try to claim political points by pointing at the private sector as failing and which is hamstrung and guided to oblique targets through government appointed quango's.
Moxi