Major UK domestic and commercial gas supplier Centrica’s stark warning last week that Britain’s gas storage is now “concerningly low”
with less that a week's supply in reserve after the last period of 'dunkelflaute' (low to zero wind and sub zero temperatures,) cause demand to soar, triggered desperate measures to keep the lights
on, with some of Britain’s oldest power stations being paid £2
million an hour to meet demand, monry which wll end up on consumers; bills.
The first two weeks of 2025 saw first storms which forced the wind farms on which we are increasingly dependent of energy, to be shut down to prevent high winds damaging the vanes on the turbines, followed by a period of 'dunkelflaute' a weather pattern of low or zero wind speeds accompanied by freezing temperatures that can last for a few days to several weeks and this time gave us coldest night in Britain for 15 years. It was also the first real test for Britain’s new National Energy System Operator (NESO), part of the labour government's mission to create a new Qango a day throughout its term of office.
Could this new bureaucratic entity convince us that it was able to deliver reliable and affordable supplies and was fit for purpose? Of course it couldn't, bueucracies never deliver anything except incompetence and failure. NESO failed on both counts and as a result consumers and businesses are now facing huge extra costs which will find their way onto bills in the coming months.
Our governments' (past and present for two hand a half decades,) efforts towards the mytical Net Zero (for comparison think of The Holy Grail on steroids,) which have only worked to the detriment of our Country, Citizens and Society have just been wiped out by the toxic fumes from the Los Angeles wildfires in America. The next volcano to erupt somewhere in the world will spew more CO2 and toxic gases into the atmosphere than we could save in ten years were we to switch off all carbon dioxide emitting technologies and resturn to a medieval lifestyle.
As we have seen over the last week no wind no energy generated, but this clownshow government and Ed Miliband, its idiot Energy Secretary is going to build wind farms, solar panels and pylon routes all from imported, because in their fanatical zeal to 'lead the world to net zero' our governments have forced the furnaces and factories down.
This country sits on vast reserves of coal, we still have Gas in the north see, we have unimaginable reserves of oil/gas in the Falklands and we have designed and built mini nuclear reactors which are selling abroad ?
We can only wonder how many old people have died during this most recent cold weather spell? No government department or agency is going to be in a hurry to release such data because should it become public the streets woud surely be filled with protesters once more.
Labours only answer is more bloody windmills, solar panels and pylons, thereby ensuring prices will go even higher, whilst the government misinformation team tries to distract us with talk of Artificial Intelligence boosting the economy. Unfortunately the giant data centres needed for AI systems eat electricirty and will need a decicated power station each according to reports.
Sadly the case is Mad Miliband and Sleazy SStarmer can build 10 times the number of windmills and thousands of miles of electricity pylons, and cover vast acreages of good farmland with solar panels which will deface and destroy the natural beauty of our countryside but when the wind doesn’t blow and the sun doesn't shine (sunset to sunrise every day at least,) they’re all absolutely useless.
No amout of mathematical modelling by pseudo scientits can solve the inherent unreliability of wind and solar power by building more windmills and sun farms. So we’ll be forever stuck with the problem of providing emergency back up power at eye watering prices as we’ve just seen in the last few days.
The situation can only become worse the further Mad Miliband, the swivel eyed idealogue forces us to rely on wind and solar by shutting down the gas and nuclear powered generating stations. Furthermore, if the wind blows too hard these windmills can’t operate because it’s dangerous and if the wind blows just right we occasionally have too much wind power and the operators are then actually paid for the power they would have been able to produce had they not been told to shut some of them down to prevent the grid being damaged by overloads.
These
problem will never go away. Somebody, an engineer, logician or economist needs explain in very simple terms to the stupid politicians and OCD afflicted pseudo scientists that the only
way to stop and start gas fired power stations quickly is by utilizing
open cycle gas turbines but these burn twice as much gas and produce
twice the CO2 emissions than combined cycle gas turbines which are much
more efficient but are designed to run continuously and once taken offline cannot be brought back in less than a few hours. Put simply wind
power is unaffordable and actually increases our overall CO2 emissions
when looking at our power production from all sources.
Britain now has the highest industrial energy prices in the world, has fallen out of the world’s top 10 manufacturers, increasingly risks power rationing, and is spending over £3 billion a year to import electricity from Europe. A generation of flawed energy policies have wreaked havoc on consumers and the problem is getting worse, contrary to Ed Miliband’s belief that prioritising wind and solar over new nuclear and gas is the answer.
UK electricity prices are nearly 50 per cent above the International Energy Agency median for industrial electricity and 80 per cent above the median for domestic users. Our businesses pay almost four times as much as Americans for power and our consumers three times. This is hugely concerning when Labour’s net zero plans will see Britain using much more electricity for cars and household heating, irrespective of it being far more expensive than gas.
Why are we still insisting in going down this futile, blinkered route - Ed Miliband is throwing SO much money at? What happens when our credit runs out, which it will do eventually because the government must bortow every month to finance its day to day business. We CAN'T afford all these wild plans - what use are the reserves in the North Sea when it's not politically correct to use fossil fuels. Our approach appears to be lets throw more money at the problem while other countries around us are being pragmatic and using what they have to hand.
Following its launch in October, the aforementioned NESO released its Winter Outlook report which forecast peak electricity demand would be 44.4 gigawatts (GW) at any one time. But last week saw demand for electricity close to 50 GW. At this critical time, output from wind turbines had fallen away and there were problems importing power from Europe on which Britain is becoming overdependent.
Britain’s chronic lack of gas storage, at just 12 days, is another failure of national planning. While France enjoys robust storage at 113 days and Germany at 89, the failure to act will now encourage suppliers to charge more when demand spikes on cold days, especially as Britain is one of Europe’s largest per capita users of gas. Why wasn’t storage prioritised, especially after Putin’s invasion of Ukraine?
The failure of this most important national policy represents one of the biggest failings in statecraft since World War Two. The consequences are stark, ranging from the loss of our competitiveness and rising fuel poverty, to the UK becoming dangerously vulnerable to future energy crises. And for what end?
Facts are important. Between 2004 and 2021, before the war in Ukraine, the industrial price of energy in Britain tripled in nominal terms (153 per cent) or doubled relative to consumer prices. Electricity prices have doubled since 2019. This has led to a huge slice of Britain’s manufacturing base already choosing to relocate overseas. Since 2010, over 200,000 manufacturing jobs have been lost; as a share of GDP, manufacturing has halved since the 1990s.
A failing energy policy inflicts huge pain on households, industry and the wider economy. It restricts investment, offshores energy intensive industry, and stunts job creation. We must urgently address and tackle how and why a generation of political leaders and civil servants have failed and continue to do so.
NET ZERO ARCHIVE:
Can Bus Sized Lithium Ion Batteries Power Britain
The project has, predictably, provoked local opposition. “This might become an industrial area more than the farming land it’s been for the last thousand years,” says Jamie Ingham Clark, of the Claydons Solar Action Group, “Battery storage sites should be on brownfield – they should not take away our ability to grow food.”
How Many Billions of People Would Die Under Net Zero?
BBC wildlife documentary presenter Chris Packham has hit back at claims reported on Neil Oliver‘s GB News show that half the world’s population could die if Net Zero was implemented in full. This is a bit hypocritical of Packham, who has been claiming millions will die because of climate change caused by human activity for decades.
EU Technocrats Plan To Shut Down European Agricultural Industry
European farmers will gather in Brussels on Tuesday to demand guarantees from the EU Commission that changes to policy will be made to ensure the European agricultural sector remains viable. They will also demand a relaxation of the regulatory regime, and for Brussels to abandon free trade agreements with countries outside the EU, which are now being used to bring cheap into European markets
Globalists Say Climate Change Is A Threat To Democracy But The Real Threat Is Globalism
While most of the large economies in European are backing off their pledges on 'net zero', over in the USA, even as the public reject the scaremongering of climate alarmists, the increasingly crazy Biden administration are still trying to push this de-industrialisation agenda without without any apparent concern for public opinion or for the misery and impoverishment The Childsniffer's regime is inflicting on many Americans.
Tractors Are Heading For Central London As UK Farmers Protest
Scores of farm tractors from all over Britain were reported to be converging on Westminster as British farmers finally ran out of patience and pushed back against what they say is a lack of government support. Flying Union flags and displaying signs with slogan such as 'Save British farming' and 'No farming, no food, no future' they were gathering in London and plan to arrive in central London by early evening
Germany Running Out Of Money, Debt Levels Exploding - The Price Of War, Open Borders And Net Zero?
An urgent warning about the state of Germany's finances has been given by Finance Minister Christian Lindner. Lindner has bluntly told the government that state borrowing are growing out of hand, and the government urgently needs to reduce spending. The other coalition members, the Social Democrats, and The Greens are both spendthrift lefties so dispute over spending is only expected to escalate
UK Gov. Fossil Fuels U Turn Means Its All Over For Net Zero
The Announcement made by UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak acknowledged at last that to keep the lights and heating on in our homes and the wheels of industry turning it will be necessary to start building new gas-fired power plants because the great science backed leap to transition energy productions to clean, green, pollution free, sustainable, renewable, blah blah blah sources has failed dismally.
Britain To Harvest Power From Sahara Solar Farms Using 700ft Ship? Another Green Dream
World’s biggest cable-laying vessel will link Moroccan renewables with Devon substationread a headline in a UK mainsteam news website recently. A project to feed power from the Sahara Desert to Britain moved a step closer to fruition as its financial backers prepare to commission the giant cable-laying ship.
Furious French Farmers Stage Shitfest Protest In ToulouseInspired perhaps by the protests of farming communities in Germany and Netherlands, angry French farmers gathered in the historic city of Toulouse, South - west France this week and dumped piles of farmyard manure on the steps of City Hall and in the streets and squares in fron of other public buildings. Such shitfest protests are a favourite tactic of French farmers when they want to let their government know its policies stink ...
Thousands Of Tractors Blocks Berlin Traffic Over Plan To End Diesel Subsidy
Thousands of German truck drivers, farmers, and agricultural workers parked in front of the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin yesterday as another massive protest over the government's 'green' plans to end tax breaks on diesel fuel and subsidies to farmers prevented from getting the best out of their land by loonytoons EU 'rewilding' policies.
German Farmers target nation's vice chancellor in subsidies protest
German farmers angered by cost-saving plans impacting the country's agricultural sector blocked the EU state’s vice chancellor from disembarking a ferry on Thursday, in a protest that was criticized by both government and opposition figures. The farmer's ager was triggered by financial cutbacks imposed by EU policy on member state’s agricultural industries have.
New UN Report on Climate Change – Nothing New, Nothing True
The latest United Nations (“UN”) Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (“IPCC”) report, published this week, once again, in scaremongering tone and the language of the panic stricken, claims that the planet is in peril (we are facing climate disaster, the clock is at one minute to midnight, we must take urgent action to destroy civilisation if we are to save the planet, the usual over - dramatised guff designed to spread fear and panic,) basically the same claim as they have been making at least twice a month for the past 20 years.
We need energy security – not Net Zero
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has prompted a major rethink in the West. We have suddenly found ourselves vulnerable not just to rising prices in oil and gas, but also to inflation in other commodities – such as food and fertiliser. Of all these problems, the security of our energy supply has most exercised minds.
Net Zero Gone With The Wind - Boris Johnson Plans Seven New Nuclear Plants And Shelves Wind Expansion
Reports in mainstream media suggest Boris Johnson has done a U turn on his recently announced massive expansion of wind powered generating capacity. Sources in Westminster claim Boris has shelved his masterplan for a giant, floating wind farm in The North Sea and the government will reconsider plans to double or even treble the number of wind turbines in the countryside and approve plans for up to seven new nuclear reactors instead.
Climate Change Research Paper Censored by The British Hydrological Society For Telling The Truth
The Daily Sceptic today published an article by retired research scientist James Dent, whose specialist field was hydrology and meteorology. Mr. Dent was involved in research projects aiemd at understanding the factors influencing climate, and their effects on environments, [ ... ] he was the World Meteorology Organisation Chief Technical Advisor to the Flood Forecasting and Warning Centre in Bangladesh, a low lying nation especially prone to flooding ....
Freak Weather Around The World Begs Questions
With Britain and other parts of northern Europe basking in unseasonably warm temperatures which are forecast to last for a few days, while parts of the USA gring to a halt under a blanket of snow dumped by freak storms are, accoring to climate scarmongers, a signal that irreversible warming had arrived, it is perhaps timely for a hot topic from ten years ago, geoengineering came under the microscope again. This report from Global Intel Hub seems a good way to kick off the debate. ... Continue reading >>>
Latest Bill Gates Insanity: Injecting Sulfur Into the Atmosphere Will Cause EnvironmentalDisaster
A study published in November by the University of Pennsylvania exposes the insanity of projects such as spraying particles of sulphur compounds into the stratosphere, self - anointed vaccime messiah Bill Gates' latest scheme to “save” the planet with "geoengineering" According to the mathematical modellers Gates pays hansomely to provide him with "scientific" data to persuade politicians to spend taxpayers money on projects run by companies his "charitable foundation" has invested in. Far from saving the planet this latest idiocy is actually destroying environments.
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We Told You So - Government-funded Report Confirms World’s Largest offshore Wind Farm is UnprofitableA report commissioned by the Norwegian government has contradicted Boris Johnson’s recent claim that offshore wind costs have fallen by 70% in a decade. The report also blows a huge hole in Johnson's grandiose pledges to the COP26 conference that offshore wind power would propel Britain to its net - zero target for Carbon Dioxide emissions well before 2050, the target set by the climate conference for achieving that target.
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Climate: The Science, The Lies, The Malfeasance and The Deep State
Climate change hoax COLLAPSES as new science finds human activity has virtually zero impact on global temperatures
We have previously highlighted this report from Finland which exposes the great flaw in "the science" of global warming. The link at the end of this extract takes you to a much more complete account of the research project which, not for the first time debunks the fake science on which the politically - motivate climate change scare.
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COP26 Climate Conference - Just Another Elitist Scam To Steal Your Money
If you are one of the people who still relies on mainstream media for information, the 'on - message' news reports coming from the COP26 Climate Conference in Glasgow this week, and during the build up to the conference, might have convinced you that the entire world (barring a few crazy conspiacy theorists,) is signed up to the 'net zero' agenda and believes that destroying the economies of the developed nations while exporting our jobs, business and prosperity to places like India and China is the only way to save the planet.
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Europe's biggest economy would suffer a 6.5pc contraction if Russian energy is suspended, experts warn
Even though the sanctions already imposed on Russia in respondse to the invasion of Ukraine are hitting the nations that imposed then harder that their intended target, the EU is preparing to committ economic suicide in an orgy of virtue signalling ...
We need energy security – not Net Zero
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has prompted a major rethink in the West. We have suddenly found ourselves vulnerable not just to rising prices in oil and gas, but also to inflation in other commodities – such as food and fertiliser. Of all these problems, the security of our energy supply has most exercised minds.
UK Households Are Paying Wind Turbine Owners To Not Generate Electricity
On another near windless day here in the United Kingdom, Boggart Blog came across a very interesting piece if news. According to figures published by the business and management consultancy LCP, british taxpayers have been paying operators of wind turbines farms for the time their windmills were NOT generating electricity increased to record levels last year ...
Net Zero Is A Dangerous Fantasy, But Scientists Believe In Fairies It Seems
With oil and gas prices rocketing and the highly propted sustainable energy sources performing way befow expectations the energy crisis currently gripping Europe (with worse to come as food shortages start to bite, polticians still seem more intent on pandering to the green lobby and chasing the dream of a fossil fuel free world rather securing the energy and food supplies needed by the people they serve.
New UN Report on Climate Change – Nothing New, Nothing True
The latest United Nations (“UN”) Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (“IPCC”) report, published this week, once again, in scaremongering tone and the language of the panic stricken, claims that the planet is in peril (we are facing climate disaster, the clock is at one minute to midnight, we must take urgent action to destroy civilisation if we are to save the planet, the usual over - dramatised guff designed to spread fear and panic,) basically the same claim as they have been making at least twice a month for the past 20 years.
We need energy security – not Net Zero
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has prompted a major rethink in the West. We have suddenly found ourselves vulnerable not just to rising prices in oil and gas, but also to inflation in other commodities – such as food and fertiliser. Of all these problems, the security of our energy supply has most exercised minds.
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