By Paul Homewood
The government has been claiming that “flexibility measures”, which they are planning to introduce, will save us all billions of pounds.
I covered this story last month here, and showed the claims to be a con.
It is pleasing to see that the GWPF have now followed this up, with an article in CapX:
By Harry Wilkinson
Everyone knows that renewable power is inherently unreliable, or as engineers put it: “intermittent”. Nonetheless, there is a plan in place to become ever more reliant on these technologies for our electricity supply.
This has forced the government into taking a risky bet on unproven “flexibility measures”, in a desperate attempt to try and manage this huge technical challenge.
These measures will have hefty upfront costs of up to £20 billion, but the benefits are uncertain, spread over many years and will be outweighed many times over by the…
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