Pin your energy needs on the weather, and prepare for disappointment, over and over and over again.
South Australians know it, Germans know it, Texans and Californians know it, all too well.
In the latter part of 2021, as the Big Calm descended across Western Europe, Brits learned all about it, too. Quietly firing up once-mothballed, but ever-reliable, coal-fired power plants and feverishly importing nuclear power from France.
All up, the ‘inevitable transition’ to an all wind and sun-powered future has amounted to little more than a well-orchestrated high farce.
On that score, Paul Homewood takes a look at what passes for research into the likelihood of total wind power output collapses in Britain.
While Paul reckons that no one is suggesting the wind will stop blowing completely around the postage stamp of territory that is the UK, we’ll set out a couple from the archives to prove that…
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