If you’re pinning your power needs on the weather, then get set for mixed results. No country has ever powered itself on sunshine and breezes alone; no country ever will. Those that are attempting to do so, in earnest, have come unstuck – eg Australia’s wind and solar capital, South Australia, the only Australian state to ever suffer a statewide blackout. Oh, and SA’s the place that suffers the world’s highest retail power prices, right up there with those other RE behemoths, Denmark and Germany.
And Britain is well on its way to its very own power pricing and supply calamity.
Back in August we reported on a mass blackout that struck Britain, when an offshore wind farm decided to down tools: Blackout Nation: Wind Power Output Collapse Leaves Millions of Brits Totally Powerless
To say that Britain’s once reliable power grid is under threat, is mastery in understatement.
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