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Electricity is in serious trouble- Gridwatch

David Stone

Woops, not enough Wind!

We have just had some more come online, but frequency was getting dangerously low 5 mins ago.

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  • The gridwatch templar shows that we need a minimum base 24 hour a day generation capacity of 25 GW . At present we only have 5 GW of nuclear so all the missing 20GW has to be generated by either wind, solar, hydro, tidal or by some other planetary physical means.

    If none of these green energies is available then only option is top up from power stations that run on hydrocarbon fuels such as gas, oil or coal/wood. 

    Natgrid naturally will go for the most economical source and leave the government to decide which alternative fuel sources should be promoted and financed in the future.

    My feeling is that to protect foreign currency the best option is 20 GW of mini nuclear, assisted by coal which we have plenty of, as a backup. 

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  • The gridwatch templar shows that we need a minimum base 24 hour a day generation capacity of 25 GW . At present we only have 5 GW of nuclear so all the missing 20GW has to be generated by either wind, solar, hydro, tidal or by some other planetary physical means.

    If none of these green energies is available then only option is top up from power stations that run on hydrocarbon fuels such as gas, oil or coal/wood. 

    Natgrid naturally will go for the most economical source and leave the government to decide which alternative fuel sources should be promoted and financed in the future.

    My feeling is that to protect foreign currency the best option is 20 GW of mini nuclear, assisted by coal which we have plenty of, as a backup. 

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