{"id":303480,"date":"2024-02-19T17:23:28","date_gmt":"2024-02-19T16:23:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=303480"},"modified":"2024-02-19T17:23:31","modified_gmt":"2024-02-19T16:23:31","slug":"wait-for-the-blackout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=303480","title":{"rendered":"Wait for the Blackout"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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From The Daily Sceptic<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By\u00a0DAVID TURVER<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Last week, Jess Ralston, the Head of Energy at the Energy and Climate Intelligence Unit (ECIU),\u00a0took to Twitter\/X<\/a>\u00a0to criticise Robert Jenrick for suggesting that if Labour keep their promise to decarbonise the grid by 2030, then we will see power blackouts:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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3) Jenrick: \u201cLabour promised to decarbonise the grid by 2030… If they were reckless enough [sic] to deliver this it would lead to power blackouts\u201d

What's the evidence? Blackout fears are unfounded; generation-related outages are vanishingly rare

Scaremongering?<\/p>— Jess Ralston (@jessralston2) February 12, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote>