servodude wrote:odysseus2000 wrote:Yes, but the market has changed to where the grid companies don’t have the guaranteed profits they once relied upon & every domestic solar & same with batteries subtracts from their earnings, so they won’t invest in the grid, but they will save as fossil & nuclear are retired due to lack of demand. Consumers will soon realize that the grid is not going to be developed & will instead create their own home-grid: Solar + batteries, taking load off the grid which will increasingly focus towards the winter gap for wind.
As mentioned there are several forecasts that uk winters will become more dull & cloudy. Who is funding these predictions? 2024 is the earliest spring I have known, everything is growing earlier, my solar lights started working earlier those with additional self installed solar run much longer into the night.
Any body whose business is long term capital generation & refining plants, hydro-carbons etc is in huge financial trouble as this new Industrial Revolution gains speed & momentum. Best not to stand in the way of such things!
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You sound like you are confusing "grid companies" with "energy producers" - distribution is not left to generators
I don't think the ESO ( as the UK bods are currently labelled) care where the energy they shunt about comes from
Good points.
I was labeling the whole system as grid companies, rather than being more specific as to generators & distributors. As I see it the generators who have traditionally constructed large capital intensive plants are now in trouble as these plants take a long time, use expensive fuels & as the transmission companies are finding that solar & solar with batteries can provide power where it’s needed requiring less distribution. The grid is becoming more focused on moving wind generated electricity rather than servicing large generator plants selling expensive electricity that consumers don’t want. Legacy generators look more & more like Yellow Pages in their future even with now known batteries & compressed gas storage & many new improved batteries are being developed in various laboratories that will potentially weigh against legacy generators, but, yes I was unclear, thank you for the correction.
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