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Black outs on the horizon

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Looks like a bullet was narrowly dodged back on January 8th.

Blackouts near miss in tightest day in GB electricity market since 2011

Will we ever have a coherent energy policy in the UK? The graphs make interesting reading.

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    Evaluating the coherence of a policy set involves an understanding of the true objectives. The cybernetics theorist Stafford Beer came up with POSIWID dictum (The purpose of a system is what it does). He said that there is "no point in claiming that the purpose of a system is to do what it constantly fails to do."  Something to consider.

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    Evaluating the coherence of a policy set involves an understanding of the true objectives. The cybernetics theorist Stafford Beer came up with POSIWID dictum (The purpose of a system is what it does). He said that there is "no point in claiming that the purpose of a system is to do what it constantly fails to do."  Something to consider.

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