{"id":263129,"date":"2023-06-21T11:37:01","date_gmt":"2023-06-21T09:37:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=263129"},"modified":"2023-06-21T11:37:13","modified_gmt":"2023-06-21T09:37:13","slug":"summer-energy-crunch-presages-winter-woes-ahead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=263129","title":{"rendered":"Summer energy crunch presages winter woes\u00a0ahead."},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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From Tallbloke’s Talkshop<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

June 20, 2023 by\u00a0tallbloke<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n

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The European Conservative, 17 June 2023<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A return to coal was needed because turbines could not be relied upon this week due to depressed wind speeds.<\/strong>

The Conservative Party government is far down the road\u2014and much out of pocket \u2014with its plan to remove coal from Britain\u2019s energy mix. But weather conditions earlier this week meant providers had no choice but to start burning coal again, for the first time in a month and a half.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Simply put, there wasn\u2019t enough wind to allow for a good turbine output and it was too hot for solar panels to work efficiently. Some gas power plants were also shut down for maintenance. As a result, the National Grid had little choice but to ask a coal-fired power station in Nottingham to start producing electricity. This was due to be closed last September, but its owners reached a deal to push back the deadline by a year, citing the Russian invasion of Ukraine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As part of its drive towards carbon \u2018net zero,\u2019 the Tory government announced in 2021 that Britain is moving towards producing no electricity using coal after October 2024. This was a year sooner than the original 2025 deadline, and begs the question: where will providers turn when it\u2019s too hot and not windy enough in the future?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The push\u2014by the party which prides itself on being \u201csensible\u201d and \u201cpragmatic\u201d\u2014has been met with many vocal critics, but the government appears not to have been fazed. Businessman and former Brexit party MEP Ben Habib said turning our backs on fossil fuels \u201cbefore adequate alternative sources of \u2018sustainable\u2019 renewable energy are available\u201d sounds \u201cdaft\u201d because \u201cit is.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reviewing some of the latest decisions on energy policy, Mr. Habib told The European Conservative:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIn the pursuit of a net zero country, His Majesty\u2019s Government decided many years ago to cut back on filthy coal. Then in 2021, it began shutting down North Sea oil and gas under the North Sea Transition Deal\u2014part of the then Prime Minister\u2019s drive to \u201cBuild Back Better.\u201d Under that deal, the off-shore extraction of fossil fuels was to be replaced by off-shore wind energy; wells closed, and jobs moved into green energy. Rough, our biggest natural gas storage facility, was also more or less shut down and now cannot easily be re-commissioned. To make matters worse, not a single nuclear power plant has been built in the UK since the mid-1990s. By 2030, 14 of 15 nuclear power plants are scheduled to have closed with only one replacement, Hinkley Point C, to be commissioned in 2027.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is not an energy policy, it is energy hara kari.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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