By Paul Homewood
One of our colleagues wrote to his local MP last month:
I’m sorry keep harping on about this, but don’t you find these Gridwatch figures for last night extremely worrying?
In spite of all our foreign owned wind turbines, on and off shore, they were producing less than 1GW with demand of 38GW. Solar produced zilch. Gas nuclear coal and biomass were all practically flat out.
Gas was heavy lifting 24GW of generation. Do you have any idea what a replacement 24GWh battery would look like or cost? How long it would last for and how would you propose to charge it?
The system is broken.
National Grid are currently paying people not to use electricity at peak times. Your government is paying people thousands of pounds in subsidies and tax breaks to change to electric cars and £7500 to install heat pumps. Electricity companies are actively encouraging people to use less of the product they sell- can you name any other business that does that?
Do you have any idea what the electricity demand is going to be in 2035 when gas and oil boilers, and petrol and diesel cars are banned?
And how on earth are you going to provide it with renewables?
Maybe one of the 80,000 free loaders in Dubai can help with the answer.
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He has asked me to keep his name and the MP’s confidential, but I can confirm that the latter is a member of the Conservative Environmental Network. This is his reply:
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Thanks for this and I’m sorry for the slow reply. You’re right to highlight the total inadequacy of the renewables sector at the moment; and the threat that a hasty forced march to Net Zero could pose. I remain hopeful that a genuine market-led solution will emerge, by which the abundance of free energy in nature translates into low-cost energy for consumers, supplanting more expensive hydrocarbons through the ordinary process of the market.
With best wishes, and thanks for highlighting the situation in such stark terms
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The letter is breathtaking in its naivety. “Free Energy”, “Hopeful”.
And of course, no recognition, never mind solution, to the question of what we are supposed to do when the wind stops blowing.
I automatically assumed he was one of the sceptical groupings of MPs, but no he really is signed up to the CEN agenda.
It really is frightening that people like him are in charge of our energy policy.
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