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Saving Billions on Grid Upgrades
The UK government and grid are planning £16bn grid upgrades as part of wider developments to accommodate an additional 17GW of new offshore wind (to 35GW intermittent renewable generation) by the mid...
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Analysis of National Grid Future Energy Scenarios 2021
Summary of Findings National Grid’s Future Energy Scenarios 2021 (NG’s FES 2021 ) is a small step forward on their 2020 document. It contains broader, for example considering aviation, shipping and ra...
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Where Grid Regulation Went Wrong
The Smart Systems and Flexibility Plan is the UK government's and Ofgem's proposal to achieve Net Zero emissions in the energy system. Most of the other current BEIS consultations are detailed looks i...
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Comparing Energy Storage, Like with Like
One of the biggest challenges facing those who wish to invest in, or otherwise work with, energy storage is how to compare the costs and performance of different technologies. Many (e.g. batteries) ca...
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Batteries – Expensive and Inadequate Solutions
Grid connected batteries are being used for many grid services that would be much better and more cheaply delivered by large-scale long-duration storage, for four reasons: 1.\sTheir intrinsic cost is...
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Electric versus Fuel Cell Vehicles
Batteries are the major technology being proposed for the decarbonisation of transportation, but not the right technology. It has a number of major problems, some of which have no technical fix and ot...
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Analysis of National Grid’s Summer Outlook Report 2021
On 8th April 2021 National Grid has published its Summer Outlook Report 2021, in which they analyse the ability of the system to cope with anticipated supply, demand and grid issues during the coming...
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Global Lessons from the Texas Blackouts Feb 2021
While this analyses the Texan and American views, the lessons from it are universal. Three Perfect Storms? Three severe winter storms swept across America in the period February 10-20, 2021. While cau...
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Fads and Fallacies of the Energy Transition
Throughout the energy transition, technology after technology has been lauded as "the big thing" of the energy transition, "the solution" to the challenges involved. The energy transition isn't carefu...
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The UK's Fragile Reliance on Electricity Imports
The United Kingdom no longer has enough domestically generated electricity for its own peak needs, and relies on imports through interconnectors. As the grid decarbonises, power stations are closing,...