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mytailorisrich on Jan 12, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: The UK is wasting a lot of wind power

The solution is to upgrade the national grid.

This is needed anyway because it is already maxed out and demand will dramatically increase with the transition to EVs.

scrlk on Jan 12, 2023 [–]

Tell that to Ofgem. The latest price settlement for electricity transmission and distribution networks (RIIO-T2 and RIIO-ED2) has cut the amount of investment the networks are allowed to carry out.

mytailorisrich on Jan 12, 2023 | [–]

I bought a petrol generator even before Covid.

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