That is the view of the head of our gas network, as he is quoted in the article linked below in today’s Daily Telegraph (paywalled)
"In 2022, the wind didn’t blow enough or at all for 262 days. And in those 262 days, we would have had rolling blackouts, or a full blackout across the UK if it wasn’t for gas.”
There are a number of interesting charts in the article which show the size of the shift the government are hoping to make. Currently 86% of our homes have gas central heating. That is 25 million gas boilers. The big question that no politician will answer is "who is going to pay" – when the public find out it is them, I suspect they may be a bit cross!
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October 23, 2023 at 05:42AM
Iowa Climate Science Education 