Steve Hollliday is the UK’s power czar, basically. He’s the CEO of National Grid. He is predicting that, because the UK is moving to more wind-generated electricity to meet government emissions targets, residents will end up with less access to electricity. And they’d better learn to like it!
The grid is going to be a very different system in 2020, 2030,” he told BBC’s Radio 4. “We keep thinking that we want it to be there and provide power when we need it. It’s going to be much smarter than that.
By which he actually means that First World UK will get a barely functional, and hideously expensive, Third World power grid. Win the future!
“We are going to change our own behaviour and consume it when it is available and available cheaply.”
Holliday has for several years been predicting that blackouts could become a feature of power systems that replace reliable coal plants with wind turbines in order to meet greenhouse gas targets. Wind-based power systems are necessary to meet the government’s targets, he has explained, but they will require lifestyle changes.
This is all because of global warming. It will produce a kind of energy-based fascism.
The PJ Tatler » UK electricity CEO: Get used to not having any electricity, suckas!
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The famous Welsh coal mines are now supermarket parking lots. Anglo-Saxons in their pursuit of better working conditions and so-called better environmental stewardship have become quite helpless and are ready to be taken advantage of. A very sad commentary indeed.
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