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

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• Malyca@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I’m sure this has nothing to do with more demanding data centers

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• FiniteBanjo@feddit.online ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I could have sworn the UK produced enough offshore wind power to make up the majority, but apparently not

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  Whats the deal, UK?

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  • yuumei@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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    • FiniteBanjo@feddit.online ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      ty

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    • NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      What's the difference?

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  • SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    They are installing AC at a breakneck pace.

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  • SpatchyIsOnline@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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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• NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Okay guy from the third world here, is it just the rose-tinted glasses or is this emphatically not supposed to happen in developed countries?

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  • Malyca@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It’s not but here we are

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• reddig33@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Perhaps Britain should roll out solar panel incentives and neighborhood battery backups? Some offshore wind might be useful right around now as well.

  This is only going to get worse the longer that it’s ignored. Importing fossil fuels isn’t going to fix it. Heat is continually going up — more people will be adding air conditioning and stressing the grid.

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  • Senal@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    They’ve had solar incentives,multiple times, the government fucked around and made it absolutely excruciating, then fully dropped it with a big fuck you.

    There were legit financial reasons for this afaik, but it still left a bunch of people holding the bag.

    People are understandably wary of any new promises.

    I wonder if this it is a coincidence that this comes closely on the heels of : this or this or this

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  • yakko@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    What if instead we added more fossil fuels - AND - further centralised the power grid? Hah? Pretty smart, eh?

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  • thanksforallthefish@literature.cafe ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    We have a lot of wind. Not enough yet in my opinion, but there have been days when renewables generated 100% of the consumption and many instances where wind has had to stop producing due to excess (yes that’s a design problem)

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• homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Another day, another UK article where I’m like,

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• HerbGrower@slrpnk.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  How short notice and for how long are important things I would want to know.

  How much firewood and how many hot water bottles should I keep stocked.

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