adambell.bsky.social
Director of Policy at Stonehaven. Ex BEIS. Energy geek. All skeets in a personal capacity. @adam_grant_bell on the bird site
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Liquified Natural Gas, how most non-pipeline gas is shipped around the world.
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Luckily most of our LNG comes from the US; if this were pre 2022 this would be very expensive. It's still going to be expensive for anyone with a fossil fuelled car.
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Imagine if you didn't have to pay the £200k...
www.stonehavenglobal.com/managing_dec...
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Yes, negative pricing all gets topped up. But the majority of LC power in the UK is still exposed to the market. By 2030 it will be the other way round.
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Many thanks to you both - I hadn't realised how poorly connected the SW was. A significant challenge for 2030!
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That is true, but the quantum of output currently being used should be within the scope of the transmission network to get it to where it needs to be.
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Moreover, all we know is that American bombs landed at Fordow and other sites. We don't know whether they have materially degraded their capbility. I would assume the regime would redouble their efforts with the resources they have left.
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The Iranian regime is awful, but no regime has ever been removed via air power. Unless this is a prelude to a ground invasion - which would be more challenging than Iraq - all this does is indicate to the regime that negotiation is pointless.
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The Government is actually shockingly poor at probabilistic analysis. You will very rarely see an impact analysis that sets out the probability that a high low or central scenario will take place. It's of a piece with risk avoidance.
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That being said, Government essentially stepping in to subsidise bills rather than seek to reduce system costs driven by existing policy represents yet another instance of Government by epicycle. /fin
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This is a novel departure from the existing EII relief scheme that essentially redistributed costs from industry to consumers. By conceding the principle that levies can be paid by the taxpayer, conversations around bill rebalancing are likely to go significantly less in HMT's favour. /2
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That level of vagueness is concerning in itself.
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The other interesting thing is the Vice President of the United States thinks it behoves his office to literally spend his time trolling random people on the internet. It is almost impossible to parse how far America has fallen from being a serious country.
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Xiao's point is that the Spanish SO didn't ensure they had enough assets on standby to manage voltage issues at the scale at which they occurred. More grid forming BESS would have helped, I agree, but this is a system integration failing rather than a solar failing.
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We are all considerably grateful to the Spanish system operator for providing us with such an instructive lesson.
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I would imagine that system operators across Europe are looking at this report and hurriedly rethinking large chunks of their rules.
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There is considerable culpability for plant operators who had voltage protection settings set too conservatively, but again this should be a function of the requirements for system connection, which need to be policed.
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Do you have adequate assets available to manage voltage issues? Do you need to be more interventionist in when assets go offline for maintenance? Do you need new markets for reactive power and other services? Are your contracts for these robust enough?
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Revolting anti-Northern bias from our national broadcasters. Tens of thousands of ruddy-faced sons of Northumbria having to have a little lie down because of the weather is not treated as the national calamity it is.
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Yes, but one can always strive for better!
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Paging @arthurdowning.bsky.social.
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How much we pay for that level of reliability is a different matter...
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My money is on a warm windy summer night...
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Yeah I'm extremely relaxed about that, the actually interesting thing is what you do in the UK to support frequency. Interconnectors are not in the last 30mins.
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having coppers in camo is a very bad look
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You need to ensure that frequency is supported minute by minute, second by second. That involves new services from batteries, from renewables with new inverters, from synchronous condensers and from demand. It is a substantial engineering challenge, and I look forward to its successful delivery!
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We're not going to get anything like that. The fact that we're not having an honest debate about this is one of the reasons why the country is in such a state.
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Proust is an almost archetypal incel for at least the first couple of books and would absolutely have obsessively played Elden Ring. Entering Limgrave for the first time would've replaced a madeleine if he wrote it now.
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A significant proportion of climate change is now locked in for at least a century. This is not a counsel of despair, rather a reminder that mankind is indeed changing the atmosphere, regardless of what these people think.