By Paul Homewood

This story appeared in the Telegraph the other day:

They confirm my suspicions that lack of inertia was the critical factor in the blackouts, compounded by the automatic switch off of local embedded solar and wind power.

Their finding that the rapid loss of frequency was “five times greater than historic slumps” is particularly damning.

The National Grid’s response, that this was a “rare and unusual event, that has happened only three times in thirty years”, is both highly complacent and disingenuous. It implies:

a) It will remain a very rare event, so we must not worry our little minds about it.

b) If the same set of circumstances had happened in the past, before wind and solar power became so significant, the outcome would have been the same.

There is no evidence that either is true.

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August 25, 2019 at 05:15AM