“Heavily Reliant On Imported Energy” | UK Energy Hits ‘Concerningly’ Low Levels

[@andrewhotston983]

10 o'clock this morning - 53% gas, 7% wind, 7% solar, 13% imported. Go renewables!!!! Somebody deal with Ed Miliband, please.

[@chrissmith2114]

Head Moribund wants to make our grid moribund...

[@Wrestlingsaveslives]

Solar in Africa. What ya think for

[@jackk7116]

Imagine if we all had electric cars. The demand for energy to charge would shut the country down.

[@zippyatrainbow]

And heat pumps plus removing gas fires, hobs and ovens.

[@Wrestlingsaveslives]

Ya can use them to generate electrix

[@Wee_Langside]

​@Wrestlingsaveslivesno they don't generate they store.

[@robinjones5169]

​@@zippyatrainbow You can literally use less gas to run heat pumps even if you run them entirely off gas generated electricity. Burning fossil fuels in a boiler is extremely inefficient and terrible for our energy security.

[@lesliesangster3841]

How do you charge your electric vehicle in a power cut

[@graemeshort1928]

This country CAN'T afford Ed Millpedes plans !!

[@robinjones5169]

Future Energy Scenarios puts net zero as cheaper than what we're currently doing. Angry older people hate facts and change though.

[@andrewstafford-jones4291]

The UK has virtually zero gas storage compared with the rest of Europe. Europe buys gas when it’s cheaper in the summer and lets the storage run down during the higher priced winter months. The UK has no interest in reducing gas prices and will pay ANY amount of money as it will simply passes this cost on to the customers.

[@robinjones5169]

Yes! I agree! This cost us really dearly in 2021 when gas prices rocketed. The crazy thing is that we have huge amounts of salt caverns where we can store enough biomethane and/or hydrogen to see us through dunkelflaute periods. There is a high risk those get used for CO2 from carbon capture instead. A technology that doesn't really work.

[@davebax6819]

and the UK owns absolutely Zero Gas and Oil, in the summer months, Big energy sends large amounts of gas to europe through pipelines as they buy it and store it. Its called the international energy market. Politicians could have increased storage here and bought gas at summer prices.....they didn't

[@gwynwilliams4929]

My Brother worked in power industries for 40 years he told me 13 years back we will have a power outage soon and the wind turbines and solar farms are to cost Lee and people of this country will play for it no common sense and it takes to long Build power stations to get them on line

[@robinjones5169]

I'm willing to bet he didn't actually work with any of the newer technologies. It's easy to complain about the scary new thing if you don't understand it.

[@iareid8255]

Robin, it is obvious to me you have no understanding of the 'new technology'. There are only two sorts of renewable generation that meet the criteria for an economical, reliable and stable source of electricity. One is hydro power (Not pumped hydro) and the other is wrongly called renewable which is biomass, The remaining types of renewables meet none of the criteria required which is that it should be synchronous, have inertia, have reactive power input and support short circuit current levels. Wind, solar, wave and tidal have none of these so cannot replace conventional generators. They need considerable support to be able to provide as much as they do now to our grid but as more and more gets added it becomes harder to keep the grid stable and reliable. This is not new and has been known from the inception..

[@gwynwilliams4929]

Yes robin i agree with in the the 2002 was working in the fabrication of wind towers i e welding wind towers for sea and land and before that I did my apprenticeship as a plumber and heating engineer and my Brother was a C G B Engineer and he worked on pump stroreg and high dro all over the country and i have worked on highdregan ready gas Boilers for housing new tech

[@steadfastandyx4947]

Ross Clark tells us how it is.

[@davidcaldwell4953]

You have to be joking. This country is heavily dependent on all countries for everything. We make nothing we produce nothing we have sold everything, The reason is because it was all short term gain . The trouble is you can only sell things once . Then you pay for that forever.

[@davebax6819]

and thats why we should grow our Nuclear and Renewable energy and stop contracting it out to foreign investors to be owned elsewhere.

[@socomxx]

I hate windmill farms, damaging to the environment, have to use up so much land for these as well so definitely a net negative impact on the environment

[@kennethcartwright8561]

Plus much of the materials used are not recyclable plus they badly affect the wildlife

[@Wrestlingsaveslives]

Should be in sea. Private utilities is daylight robbery. Solar isnt

[@Wrestlingsaveslives]

Wind solar or war oil gas from ukraine

[@Wrestlingsaveslives]

​@kennethcartwright8561 it's deliberately held back by oil cartel

[@kennethcartwright8561]

@ don’t think it’s getting through from Ukraine is it?

[@shingerz]

Wheres the electric coming from when no more petrol or diesel vehicles how will the country cope all electric 🤔

[@kennethcartwright8561]

@@shingerz it won’t and what are all the car workers who’ve lost their jobs going to do? My Granddaughter had an EV couldn’t wait to get rid of it

[@robinjones5169]

​@@kennethcartwright8561My EV is great. Saves so much money and performance is great.

[@RomanHistoryFan476AD]

@@robinjones5169 Sadly it won't be saving money for much longer. They're planning to tax them soon and the electricity charge cost will rocket.

[@davebax6819]

you can still buy a petrol, but probably a good idea to avoid diesel as its on its knees

[@baldelectrician]

This is the reason I bought a whole home battery back up last month and installed. It is also the reason I ordered another 8kW battery to add to my system It is patented 0ms switch over For what it is worth I installed a Sigenergy system.

[@worldofameiso5491]

For the last four decades, UK governments have failed to invest in our power infrastructure, especially in nuclear, which could have given us energy surety and at lower cost. Instead the governments have decided upon a policy of decline. Green energy is all well and good, but only if it is economical and you have the battery storage to manage the distribution of energy especially when the wind and sun is not favourable, neither of these things have been provided. We now have the world's most expensive industrial energy costs and this is holding back the profitability of our industries. This country needs a different solution to that being offered by the current and recent administrations.

[@davebax6819]

I was wondering how the EV would fit into your world via V2H and V2G....You know charge it up go to work, plug it into smart grid, run your house for tea, support the grid at that awful peak tea time period, and then....oh yes store renewables from grid overnight, or daytime at work.....mmmmm could work, unless of course we believe the Fudders.

[@darrenpatto2475]

Brilliant Gentleman.

[@DrRobert7898]

Do Solar panels work at night now then

[@chrissmith2114]

Yeah we have Lunar panels apparently, capturing the suns reflected light from the moon.

[@damianbutterworth2434]

You have to have batteries. Might be the way forward as a back up system.

[@chrissmith2114]

@@damianbutterworth2434 There are not enough batteries in the world for meaningful grid scale backup, and it they were the cost is truly astronomical, and guess who is going to pay....the end user.

[@graemeshort1928]

Yes they do if they sence bright light ie from a council car park that stupidly leaves them on all night. My mate makes a fortune from his panels

[@damianbutterworth2434]

@@chrissmith2114 I got 6 caravan batteries for £300. Enough to run the house with just me and only using the basics. I was suggesting getting away from the grid. In Spain the energy companies are in panic as everyone has panels and the can not sell energy. Well in Summer lol,

[@malph9216]

Minibrain's answer is to build more windmills......Whether you've got 10 or 1 billion windmills, if the wind doesn't blow they're literally worse than useless. Same with solar panels and the Sun.

[@robinjones5169]

You build storage too of different durations to handle the times these technologies don't generate and to match supply to demand.

[@Winning1]

I still can't believe Europe pays 10 for gas, 4 for wind, 2 for solar, and 1 for nuclear. But we pay whatever the highest-rated energy product is, so if solar goes from 2 to 100, we pay 100 for gas, 100 for wind, and 100 for nuclear. That might be why we have the highest prices.

[@davebax6819]

our prices are set on fossil fuel costs though aren't they?

[@Kai_of_lexx]

you would think we dont actually have gas amazing

[@graemeshort1928]

We do lots of it in the North Sea but Mad ED has shut the north sea down for his net zero day dream = 1/2 witt

[@davebax6819]

We...as in We, don't. Its mainly pumped and owned by big energy

[@wgj4813]

Interconnectors between countries ard great but its not an interconnector if it is one way its a supply line. Gt Britain needs to wake up and start producing 100% of its own energy and quickly.

[@richardscott8146]

We still use russian oil

[@Lonerstoner512]

If we went to was it would be piss easy for the enemies to targeted our power sources were screwed

[@Lee_Proffit]

UK going for a net zero, by using nuclear generated electric from Belgium - how does that work out then ?

[@davebax6819]

its low carbon I guess

[@Lee_Proffit]

@@davebax6819 If it is, then why are we knocking up nuclear stations rather than wind farms, it just don't make any sense 😞

[@Wee_Langside]

Not against clean reliable energy. Wind and solar are neither. All working interconnectors to Europe are at maximum.

[@davebax6819]

mainly french nuclear?, we are soon to have operational interconnector with morroco...

[@Glynthomas-sw6un]

Here's a plan . If renewable are so fantastic and will save money ,how able make it compulsory that the Minister of State for energy securityand Net Zero of Uk , Energy Commissioner UK, plus Millabacon and the Liebour party invest their future Pension and Bonuses into them. If they do well their pension go up . Problem solved if they go down ,aho at least they gave it a ho for the good of the party and the country OK and the people.😊 Doubt this will get published.😊

[@Wrestlingsaveslives]

Blame Ed milligan for death selling oil cartel

[@iancoles1349]

Yes straight in pembroke dock wales and shuved up a pipe line.Were comes from anybodies guess

[@DeneMonkey]

Tories had 14 years to plan and build power plants

[@Van-1954]

But if they did build them Mad Edd would shut them down So that was a pointless comment 😢😢

[@kennethcartwright8561]

@@DeneMonkey aah so something else that was the Tories fault then? Are you sure it isn’t down to Brexit or Climate Change 🤣🤣

[@adventtrooper]

They did. Since 2010, 17 power stations have opened, producing a total 7.5 GW (90% from 7 gas powered plants). If the three nuclear power stations (Hinckley C, Sizewell C and Bradwell B) go online by 2030 another 9 GW will be available.

[@kennethcartwright8561]

@ thanks for that info 👍but aren’t Politicians trying to Phase out Gas just like Oil?

[@Jeremiah59]

This is a racket and we are being scammed.

[@jon-gz4ed]

Why import when we got it around our country ,surely we could sell to other countries and get money that way

[@vincew8609]

Um um um um um.

[@savethebeesplantherbs8809]

gas/ electric suppliers offer customers emergency heating or get no bills paid

[@m0o0n0i0r]

One thing you dont mention is NIMBYs. Nobody will allow ebergy storage solutions built in their area. We need nuclear power stations.

[@davebax6819]

and you think those NIMBY's will allow that nuclear? lol

[@m0o0n0i0r]

@@davebax6819 no I dont. but they will complain about higher prices and not connect the dots. So knowing this could you invest and offset your own price hikes? this is how I think

[@m0o0n0i0r]

@@davebax6819 no lol and thats the funny. But its needed.

[@rwalkenhorst]

The freakish net-zero religion demands that we do penance for the sins of being prosperous and having fun.

[@robinjones5169]

Better than sucking off Putin and OPEC for a bit of fossil fuels.

[@paulslater9061]

Who know what goes on in Milliband mind

[@NickGj-k7v]

Paying contingement payment for wind energy from taxpayers money is showing incompetent planing, incompetent knowlage especially on a country with high industrialized level. UK on 2023 generated 82.46 TWh/year, and payed 1 Billion Pound. These money are from taxpayers money, they pay these on bills. Government must repurpose many suspended oil wells and use these wind energy to enhance production of oil. These will revitalize the UK energy sector, will create jobs and increase oil recovery from suspended oil wells. Contact for detail information, open to help UK and other countries who have energy that they can not use.

[@LordPeg44]

What about so called “small” nuclear plants. (Not the right term probably ). Why were not these built by the last govt as most commentators seem think that these were the answer

[@robinjones5169]

Not really, there's one in China and one in Russia. Nobody has built one in the west without it getting cancelled. Nuscale were the most recent to fail. Nuclear always goes massively over budget, takes way too long and you still need storage. Renewables are just quicker.

[@davebax6819]

You do realise Ian Collins that Big Energy own the gas and oil?, you do realise that we have very little storage capacity in the UK and in the summer when there is a glut of gas, big energy pump it to europe for storage right? We...as in the royal we, don't produce any gas or oil, we merely licence it and tax it. Cameron and May cut our storage (or allowed it to happen)....and therein lies your problem, you fail to research it and rely on Montford.

[@paulthomas-hh2kv]

Russia has the cheapest gas, Zelensky turned it off 😂

[@nicolassTRAVEL]

Brexit mess

[@nicolassTRAVEL]

Brexit disaster

[@peterjordan7324]

Nothing to do with Brexit , all to do with net zero madness.