There’s also the fact that National grid are very wary of running without spinning turbines being available to restart the grid if a problem occured. The number of cases where, in retrospect, we could have switched gas off, but didnt, is growing month by month.
Apparently they have a plan to do it using pumped hydro stored energy, but we are always turning the wind power down rather than turning the gas off.
Once Dogger Bank is online it’ll be very common to have too much power being generated, and yet I’m sure gas will dictate the energy price if something doesn’t change.
“Why does gas make my green electricity provider more expensive?” https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/why-is-cheap-renewable-electricity-so-expensive/
This isn’t the whole story.
There’s also the fact that National grid are very wary of running without spinning turbines being available to restart the grid if a problem occured. The number of cases where, in retrospect, we could have switched gas off, but didnt, is growing month by month.
Apparently they have a plan to do it using pumped hydro stored energy, but we are always turning the wind power down rather than turning the gas off.
Once Dogger Bank is online it’ll be very common to have too much power being generated, and yet I’m sure gas will dictate the energy price if something doesn’t change.