UK Power Network resilience?

For a 4KW or 7 KW petrol or diesel fuel may be selected.

Diesel fuel is safer and cheaper, and almost any volume may be stored.

Petrol is more expensive, and more dangerous, only 30 litres may be stored lawfully A petrol generator is cheaper to buy and easier to start. A diesel generator needs electric starting in most cases which adds to the expense.

If you drive a diesel or petrol car, then that suggests that the same fuel be used for the generator. Fuel stocks may be rotated via the regularly used vehicle.

As a 'rule-off-thumb' a gallon (4.5 litres to the yung uns!) of diesel is worth about 25kWh out the back of a genset. It was legal, in years gone by, to run gensets on red diesel but thats no longer allowed.

AFAIK, red diesel is still allowed for domestic generators and domestic heating, (hospitals, places of worship, sporting clubs, and funfairs may also use red diesel for heating or electricity generation.) Most other places must use white diesel.

Despite this, I would suggest that the more costly white diesel be used for a generator, the same fuel may then be used in a diesel road vehicle so as to rotate stocks.

Seeing as how this thread looks like a general discussion i'll add ...     Don't worry just get a 'smart' meter - it will all be ok ...   ;-)

What 'covid' proved was that a lot of folk, including subject expert, can be and are manipulated -  the same can be in many fields including energy and electrical engineering... they don't like it said, but it is fact.

The trouble with science is it now can be bought (perhaps it always has been to varying degrees).

I pray for the time when real science takes centre stage without vested interest (political and private) propaganda manipulation and ideas get openly and transparently debated by the righteous great and good amongst us in the respective fields with resultant improvement proposals and supporting info chosen on show in the right manner for the people to consider (whose decision to progress anything it should be) .  I trust the people to be able to make the right decisions going forward in the correct manner in such a scenario.

With the continuing man-made climate crisis cult protagonists, aided and abetted by questionable powerful vested interests, foisting on an apathetic, confused, bewildered, daft, everyone else, to change the world  to their image, things will not improve for some time  in the energy sector for the UK   (and that's ignoring that 'we' don't own much of anything, 'we' are not energy independent etc)  

As an aside, we would all have nothing without the farmers and good clean food ...  and water, etc ! Now there's a priority  (and i'll refrain from a population debate, farming land acquisition, water poverty, etc).

Anyway and sincerely,  here's to a new year and in it, peace and best wishes to all  - in  a world gone gone insane seemingly.   Thank you to all on this forum who have helped me hugely over the year(s).