Comment on Millions in Great Britain could face emergency power cuts at short notice

FiniteBanjo@feddit.online ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• yuumei@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  That’s primary energy consumption, you want to look at electricity generation:

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  • FiniteBanjo@feddit.online ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    ty

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  • NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    What's the difference?

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    • yuumei@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Primary energy includes everything: oil used for cars, coal used for steel production. The article is only about electricity and the comment was about wind power making up the majority, which it is very close to doing.

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      • HerbGrower@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Both are important to shift over to more renewables though.

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• SpatchyIsOnline@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  One problem is a lot of wind power is generated up north, but a large majority of electricity consumption happens further south and the grid infrastructure isn’t equipped to transmit all that power that distance

  I’m sure it was Simon Clark who talked about this in a video, but I can’t find the exact one at a glance

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• SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  They are installing AC at a breakneck pace.

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