For records I use NESO and NESO historic as its their definitions

GB CCGTs 353.5MW 1% earlier on NESO if uncorrected but regardless records will have fallen

GB CCGTs 353.5MW 1% atm see NESO if uncorrected

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If you work in energy policy, you will know that - to quote Naomi Klein - this changes everything www.ft.com/content/1773...

GB CCGTs 353.5MW 1% atm see NESO if uncorrected

Contract changes next yr will change this

New EVs grants the same but we all share the same air

822 all 738 gas so looks a new low for all

True, depends if you view this as social scheme or a co2 avoidance. Oil/lpg are clearly far dirtier sources so better value to taxpayer in a £/gco2

shame he won’t be in office to have this thrown back at him

Months to years depending on size and location.

Its hard enough getting communities to run a village hall and scrape funding for the tennis club. They certainly aren't raising 400M to build and run a solar farm!

GBE budget doesn't let it do very much.

Connections Reform Results | National Energy System Operator

Any new gen in planning now (finally) is being strategically aligned with capacity to minimise this issue.

Most near term gen - almost all solar and most offshore is in Eng so avoids the main issue with grid curtailment which is almost wholly in (the N of) Scotland.

🤦 that list is not just W & Solar.

You might be better on a super cheat overnight EV tariff and selling your solar eg Intelligent Octopus Go

If they are pure CFD certainly. If they split their risks with a mix of CFD/PPA/Merchant then room for an upside but equally a downside.

Mostly going on at NESO at least on the technical side of energy, the Ind Strat is DESNZ.

ONW is now unbanned but it has thus far made no difference.

As to it being enough but we now have CP30, Modern Industrial Strategy and Strategic Spatial Energy Plans etc trying to achieve this.

In not difficult (and indeed its required) to have BNG

In the real world all non urban projects are likely to have to plant screening to get through planning.

Yes I have a local group that have done that with both dirty sources, solar & battery projects.

Did they tell you about it not always being daytime? 😀

If it was 2015 and we had a decade to build a planned grid for the most efficient renewables deployment then hooray. If GBE had a budget of 20B and the time to engage with a confetti of local orgs to build community W/S hoorayish (economies of scale still matter)

But we are where we are.

In the best of all possible worlds we could have planned the renewable grid more efficiently, and distributed solar capacity better, engaged more community ownership etc

But GB is off track on its targets as it is. It will be even further if large projects don't proceed on time.

As to 'foreign investors looking to make a profit' - pass me the smelling salts 🙄

If GB companies want to invest, they can

Community schemes, fine, but they aren't plausibly spinning up 10s of GWs of capacity in the needed time frame.

'Industrial scale' solar farms attacked by Norfolk's Green The county council's Green leader says solar panels should be locally owned and put on roofs.

😩 If you want to miss GB's 2030 solar target...

"countryside solar schemes should be smaller and locally operated, and called for a stronger drive for solar panels to be installed on rooftops of public and private buildings instead"

Building at distribution needs huge upgrades as well its just not that simple.

You will rarely be wrong to assume the SNP is trying to manufacture a new grievance

😫 Most curtailment in GB annually occurs B4/5 northward nowhere near Eng. If anyone has the right to be annoyed its Eng consumers who have funded the builds in Sco that were always going to be curtailed

Shocked I tell you.

Gov might actually have to take some difficult decisions and not rely on the CCS fairies to magic the problem away.