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0 pointsZeroGravitas4y ago0 comments

In the UK the grid has published a few white papers on this, and even had to issue corrections because newspapers keep misinterpreting what they say.

Summary, no big deal and in fact smart EV charging tech can actively help the grid and make it easier to use all the cheap power we generate.

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b1124y ago

In Ontario, 6 successive government of all political stripes, one after another did nothing, leaving the grid burning coal and ng.

Plants planned and canceled, one mess up after another, again all political parties the same mess.

It is indeed easy, until it is time to execute. And it takes a decade at least, with zoning, environmental checks, just to get a plan planned and construction off the ground.

This means that everyone should already have new plants in the planning stages.

Not a report, but buying land, regulation hurdles, and when state owned, approved.

Does the UK already have 3 or 4 new plants in these initial stages?

And if so, how many may fall through?

kieranmaine4y ago

The UK has 5 wind farms under construction with a capacity of 5125 MW and 4 proposed wind farms with a capacity of 5454 MW (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_offshore_wind_farms_in...). There has also been an increase in solar farm applications (https://www.theguardian.com/business/2021/jun/28/solar-farm-...).

On the flipside a number of UK nuclear plants are reaching EOL with only 1 currently under construction.

b1124y ago

I think a nuclear plant decommissioning was the start of Ontario's problems.

I hope yours go better, but each government blamed the prior, yet helpfully fixed nothing.

Democracy is the way to go, yet sucks for long term projects. Especially expensive ones. The currwnt government gets all the complaints (new taxes or debt), someone else gets the reward.

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b1124y ago

In Ontario, 6 successive government of all political stripes, one after another did nothing, leaving the grid burning coal and ng.

Plants planned and canceled, one mess up after another, again all political parties the same mess.

It is indeed easy, until it is time to execute. And it takes a decade at least, with zoning, environmental checks, just to get a plan planned and construction off the ground.

This means that everyone should already have new plants in the planning stages.

Not a report, but buying land, regulation hurdles, and when state owned, approved.

Does the UK already have 3 or 4 new plants in these initial stages?

And if so, how many may fall through?

kieranmaine4y ago

On the flipside a number of UK nuclear plants are reaching EOL with only 1 currently under construction.

b1124y ago

I think a nuclear plant decommissioning was the start of Ontario's problems.

I hope yours go better, but each government blamed the prior, yet helpfully fixed nothing.

Democracy is the way to go, yet sucks for long term projects. Especially expensive ones. The currwnt government gets all the complaints (new taxes or debt), someone else gets the reward.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse