UK Faces A Fate Worse Than Blackouts - Net Zero Electricity If Energy Policy Is Not Abandoned

 

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, bureucracies 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 return 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 technology, 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 crackpot schemes to import solar energy from The Sahara desert, 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.  

  

 

 

 

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Farmers Blockades, Now In Second Week, Continue To Paralyze Spain

20 February 2022

Police guide part of a convoy of tractors that arrived in Madrid, Spain, Thursday, Feb. 15, 2024. (AP Photo/Paul White)

For  the past13 days Spanish farmers have blocked major roads, city centres and ports, dumping imports of cheap Moroccan vegetables and cereals on the roads and marching alongside slow moving stractors tractors into the centers of large cities.

Protesting farmers took over the port city of Santander last the weekend, bringing commercial activity to a stanstill. Today (Wednesday 21 February, farmers went ahead with planned tractor  protests in Andalusia, Extremadura, and Castilla and León, with television and radio traffic news bulletins warning of  major delays additional road closures in these regions.

There are no signs the protests are coming to an end, either.

The Union of Small Farmers and Ranchers has a schedule for tractor demonstrations stretching all the way to Feb. 27 in Córdoba. Meanwhile, the Union of Farmers and Livestock Unions has announced its next demonstration to be in Madrid later this week, with several demonstrations planned in the run-up to this.

Last Wednesday Spanish protesters paralyzed traffic for hours at the port of Motril in southern Spain, where a large part of Morocco’s fruit and vegetable shipments arrive. Several of the vans stuck inside had their holds opened and tomatoes found inside were thrown onto the road in protest at cheap imports of agricultural products from Morocco, which do not meet the stringent EU standards Spanish farmers are compelled to uphold.

Meanwhile, scores tractors and human chains have blocked the many of busiest highways in Spain, and have also made crossing the Spanish-French border at La Jonquera difficult for the past two days. 

In Guadalajara province, neighboring Madrid, protesters dumped grain on the road, while in Salamanca and other cities, cheaply imported products  bought in hypermarket chains were spread in the car pars of those stores, according to Hungarian news outlet Magyar Nemzet.

Apart from calling for easing of EU regulations, particularly those relating to the insane 'net zero' policy, and less complicated bureaucracy surrounding EU agricultural businesses, Spanish farmers are demanding that the socialist (i.e. humanity hating,) government helps them to cope with the impact on production and incomes of last year's prolonged  drought, and to ensure greater respect for Spanish agricultural products through fair prices, less red tape, and a level playing field, among other things.

The biggest farmers’ protest, planned for Madrid towards the end of the month is expected to cause major disruptions in the city and there are fears that confrontations between protestors and police could become violent.  Farmers also announced on Thursday morning of last week that they would mobilize on Feb. 26, the day EU agriculture ministers meet in Brussels.

Spain's far left Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez has so far announced that the law on the food supply chain will be strengthened to ban loss-making sales and promote the sector’s needs; however, line their counterparts on Germany, France, Netherlands, Belgium, Ital and Poland, Spain's farmers are skeptical of his  such pledges and promises and plan to keep up the pressure.

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German Farmers target nation's vice chancellor in subsidies protest

Angry farmers drive through the city in a convoy, with a poster reading "OLAF? [ referring to Chancellor Scholz ] Oath of office forgotten?" blocking the ferry port in Schluettsiel on the North Sea coast

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.

Vice Chancellor Robert Habeck, a Green Party politician who also serves as Germany’s economy and climate ministernd has made himself unpopular by forcing loonytoons Green encironmental policies on the fragile coalition that governs Germany, was prevented from getting back to dry land after returning to the mainland from the offshore island of Hooge, where spent the Christmas and New Year break. A police spokesman said farmers blocked the landing stage in Schluettsiel, forcing Habeck to return to the island.

More than 100 farmer took part in the blockade according to the police statement, with around 30 officers on the scene, some of whom used pepper spray to quell the disturbance.

SDP Party leader and Chancellor Olaf Scholz has been heavily criticised heavily by farmers after his unpopular government announced plans to cut back agricultural sector subsidies as part of a broader package intended to plug a €17 billion ($18.6 billion) deficit in Germany’s 2024 budget. Farmers staged a massive protest in Berlin last month, when the city was gridlocked by slow moving tractors disrupting traffic flows on the main roads and busiest streets. The German Farmers Union and have promised there will be further demonstrations which will continue until Chancellor Scholz and the government change course.

A spokesperson for Habeck told DPA that he would have been happy to discuss the subsidies row with the farmers, but that “the security situation did not allow for a dialogue with all farmers,” later adding that an “offer made by Minister Habeck to talk face to face with individual farmers was unfortunately not accepted.”

On Thursday (January 4) the government announced it would partially roll back the planned measures. It said it would retain car-tax exemptions on farming vehicles, while also introducing reductions in fuel tax for diesel used in agricultural settings.

The German Farmers’ Assocation rejected all the government’s amendments, that the politicians must engage in collective negotiations with the industry and not with individuals and that protests planned for next week would go ahead as planned.

An aide of Chancellor Scholz, Steffen Hebestreit, wrote on X (formerly Twitter) that the blockade of Habeck’s ferry was “shameful and violates the rules” of a functioning society. Justice Minister Marco Buschmann said the protest “discredits the cause of many farmers who demonstrate peacefully.”

Meanwhile, Hendrik Wust of the opposition Christian Democratic Union of Germany (CDU) wrote on social media that “this transgression is absolutely unacceptable” and that the incident “must have consequences.” These comments reveal the growing alienation of Germany's political establishment from the people

Germany’s budgetary changes were forced on the governing coalition when its highest court reversed an earlier plan to cut by €60 billion ($66 billion) funds originally earmerked for sectors damaged by the Covid-19 pandemic to other measures, including climate-change mitigation.

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EU Power Grab Backed By France, Germany, Aims To End Member States Right To Veto Bureaucrats Policy Moves

Germany's Chancellor Scholz and Frence President Macron rehearsing their double act (Picture: Reuters)

In what may be the beginning of the end for the European Union's ambition to become a federal superstate, Germany and France are collaborating to put an end to the right of veto, currently held by every member state to veto any policy proposed by the Brussels bureaucracy before the end of this year.The fractious debate over the issue has led to increased tensions between members in recent months, but following a meeting between Chancellor Scholz and President Macron the measure has now been put back on the agenda.

France and Germany are convinced that a large-scale institutional reform of the European Union, including the abolition of the veto on European Council votes, could be achieved this year, French EU Affairs Minister Laurence Boone and German Minister of State Anna Lührmann told Euractiv.

“This is one of the options we want to explore in order to maintain our position as a global player with the EU’s common foreign and security policy,” Lührmann said.

He added that “it would be an important signal in other policy areas if we were to move to qualified majority voting already this year” and expressed confidence that this would happen.

The two ministers said that both countries consider it important to abolish unanimous voting in the European Council in areas such as foreign policy and taxation before the enlargement of the European Union. This could mean, for example, that Brussels would be able to implement a flat tax rate across the EU or even involve itself more deeply in the war, both moves that Hungary has rejected and in some cases even deployed its veto to stop. Paris and Berlin claim abolishing the veto is a change that is possible without amending the EU treaties, a point hotly contested by a number of European parties, as it would not only give Brussels enormous power but also the largest states, such as Germany and France. This would subsequently allow for the EU to enact a liberal immigration policy, green rules and various other progressive goals without any hindrance from Hungary and other smaller, conservative nations. The introduction of qualified majority voting would remove the veto on foreign policy issues, which would mean that only 15 of the 27 member states — representing 65 percent of the EU’s population — would have to agree to make particularly important foreign and defense policy decisions affecting the EU as a whole.

via @planettoday #PlanetToday: https://www.planet-today.com/2023/06/enormous-power-grab-france-germnay-want.html

 

France and Germany are confident that a partial institutional reform of the EU will be possible this year, the French and German ministers of state for Europe, Laurence Boone and Anna Lührmann, told EURACTIV in an exclusive interview.

While the shift to qualified majority voting would be initially “in a limited, very pragmatic way” to “show that the EU 27 is capable of reforming itself”, there is still more to come afterwards, Lührmann stated.

Both countries consider it important to abolish unanimous voting in the European Council in areas such as foreign policy and taxation before the enlargement of the European Union. This could mean, for example, that Brussels would be able to implement a flat tax rate across the EU or even involve itself more deeply in the war, both moves that Hungary has rejected and in some cases even deployed its veto to stop.

via @planettoday #PlanetToday: https://www.planet-today.com/2023/06/enormous-power-grab-france-germnay-want.html

The two leaders said that both countries consider it important to abolish unanimous voting in the European Council in areas such as foreign policy and taxation before the enlargement of the European Union. This could mean, for example, that Brussels would be able to implement a flat tax rate across the EU or even involve itself more deeply in the war, both moves that Hungary has rejected and in some cases even deployed its veto to stop.

One of the reasons Germany is supporting this move relates to the German push to expand the Union further east, with seven candidates waiting for their applications to progress the 27 would increase to the 34. At first glance it is difficult to understand German enthusiasm for admitting more economic basket cases to the EU until we remember that in the past Germany, France and Brussels have all made references to the idea of extenting the European Union into North Africa and The Middle East. It is about power, pure and simple.

The current EU is a lot different to the original Common Market of which France and Germany were among the six founder members 70 years ago, and a different animal to the European Economic Community (EEC) that I worked for in the 1980s. It started as a trade association but there has been a gradual and ongoing creep to increasing surrender of sovereu=ign powers by member states to an increasingly authoritarian central power hub. That centralising trend gained a huge boost as a result of the Ukraine conflict. Democracy and the will and welfare of the people has been thrown out of the window. The EU is fast becoming a dictatorial regime of power hungry elites that usurps the sovereignty of every member nation. But the move to a single, centralised government is doomed, while the elites dream of becoming part of a global governance scheme, in the towns and cities of member states resistance is growing.

In Germany the AfD (Alternatif fur Deutschland,) having weathered a torrent of smears, lies, and adverse propaganda, Germany's populist centre right paty is riding high in polls and doing well in regional elections, the Sweden Democrats, having been prevented by the EU from participating in a ruling coalition in 2017 were, at the last election in 2022 too popular to be stitched up by political jiggery pokery. Georgia Meloni and her Brothers of Italy party lead a Eurosceptic centre right coalition government in Italy and all around Europe opposition to centralisation and support for democratic nationalism are gaining ground.

However an atempt by France and Germany to remove the veto and thus, together, dominate the EU may be a good thing as it will give much more momentum to AfD, Rassemblement National, Brothers of Italy, Sweden Democrats and simlar anti - federalisation parties and may prompt an exodus of smaller states from EU membership. If we aggregate all this negative sentiment, add a Russian victory in Ukraine and a single currency in hyperinflation the result will be the total implosion of the EU.

Unlike the federal superstate that is the USA, where individual states have no individual cutural background or political history as sovereign states outside their Union, every EU member has a distinct culture or in some cases several regional cultures and centuries of independent history, their own language and traditions, and their flags, in many cases symbols of past struggles to preserve that political and /p>

People in Europe don't sing the EU anthem, The Ode To Joy, the French sings The Marseillaise, the Germans Lied der Deutschen, Thou Ancient, Thou Free in Sweden, Where My Home Is in The Czech Republic and so on. Europeans do not salute the EU flag, but The Union Flag, UK; Tricolor, France; Bundesflagge ("Federal Flag") Germany, Italy and several more,); Rojigualda ("Red-weld"), Spain; Dannebrog ("Danish cloth"), Denmark; Biało-Czerwona ("White-Red"), Poland. Peoples' loyalty is to their nation, and the discussion within the EU that is dividing nations now revolvces around whether the union is a benefit or a liability to their nation. Take away the last shred of national sovereignty from them and subject them to the rule of unelected buresucrats from different cuktural backgrounds and the people will turn away from the idea of a federal European superstate in even greater numbers.

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