"Will blackouts come to Britain?" Interesting YT video

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"Will blackouts come to Britain?" Interesting YT video

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Yes, an interesting watch....

However,
No mention of Climate Change at all....
No mention of the increased demand we're facing due to higher population, Data Centres, Bitcoin mining etc.
No mention of the potential for more pumped hydro storage and that battery storage technologies are improving...
No mention of other renewables such as geothermal, tidal, wave etc.

OK, her solution is to build more nuclear, but look at the right royal horlix we're making at Hinkley Point C !!
& she thinks we can get Korean Reactors up and running in 8 years....??
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We had a power cut yesterday when the temperature was 43 degC. It lasted about a second until the Tesla batteries came in as they were 100% charged and the PV inverter had nowhere to send the power so it tripped.

The grid power was off for an hour apparently. The PV inverter came back on once the Teslas got to 95% charge.

She's a good talker and seems to know what she is talking about. I bet she failed the interviews for the Civil Service Department of Energy.

I think at least some of the HPC delays are due to the UK regulator changing a lot of the design of the plant. Shoot themselves in the foot by all means but don't blame the constructors and workers for all of the delays. Tidal would be a good idea in my opinion and maybe the UK could become a leader in it instead of a purchaser.
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I consider that there is some risk of blackouts in the UK but relatively low.
The increased price of electricity has reduced demand.
Increased renewable generation has reduced reliance on imported and expensive gas.
More interconnectors have increased flexibility.

We are still rather vulnerable to gas shortages, which still generates about half our electricity, better than it was, but still concerning.

Remember also the risks of extreme weather, or of cyber attacks or simple physical attacks on grid infrastructure.
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Interesting video well presented and moderated.

Apart from anything else the ever increasing boggling complexity and number of elements of the electricity supply system
will eventually do for it.
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As part of the third and forth year exams we had to do hand calculations on a two 'bus' power system with bus being an element of the power system like a generator or a consumer. It involved a lot of matrices with complex numbers inside them that you had to calculate a convergence point to get an answer so needed three or four iterations of calculations. A real power system will have tens of thousands of busses and will require something like MATLAB software to solve all the matrices.

So very complcated system and still only and approximation for the real world.
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