FenBeagle

"Why does Britain suddenly need so much reassurance?" Because NESO is lying and so is the government.

I have read it Bob, and it tells us that @KathrynPorter26 is correct. It says... "Unfortunately, balancing costs are increasing and are predicted to go up from around £2bn a year now to as much as £8bn by 2030. That’s because over 60% of these costs are what we call ‘thermal constraints’. These typically come about when we need to take action to manage high amounts of wind generation in the north because it's unable to reach demand in the south. Put plainly, the cables don’t exist yet. To prevent the existing cables from overheating and catching fire due to excessive current flowing through them, NESO acts to turn down wind output to avoid a power outage.". It's an admission that wind energy creates the grid instability, and that the grid was never designed to cope with diffuse intermittent sources of energy, which requires us to spend billions on additional transmission lines and mitigation infrastructure. The more wind turbines we add, the greater the instability and the more we have to spend on short term grid balancing. The costs of mitigating wind generation, and wind subsidies, dwarf what it would cost to build dispatchable energy generation where energy is actually used.