Emeritus Prof Christopher May@ChrisMayLA6@zirk.us
The UK's energy severe transmission problem is best highlighted by the payment to Scottish wind farms in the last six months not to produce energy for nearly two fifths of their potential generation;
that's being paid to switch of the wind turbines because for just under 40% of the time they could be generating there was no capacity in the transmission system to move that energy to where it was needed;
and you wonder why energy costs remain persistently high?
#energy #politics
h/t FT
Nicole Parsons@Npars01@mstdn.social
@ChrisMayLA6@zirk.us
It's going to get worse too.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/08/09/trump-energy-iea-paris-00500387
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/08/09/trump-team-pushes-for-ouster-of-top-iea-official-cw-00495441
https://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-General/UK-Restricts-North-Sea-Oil-Production-Despite-Pressure-From-Trump.html
Enron manipulated energy supply to create profitable brownouts in California. Energy deregulation is a very bad public policy because of the public corruption it incentivizes.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enron_scandal
Every energy supplier manipulates supply to keep prices artificially high for profits in a monopoly, or artificially low to drive out competitors to create a monopoly.
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