Britain is freezing

[Wiz]

Britain is freezing

Suicidal energy policies led to the mass deindustrialization
of the former “world factory”

“The UK is facing something worse than blackouts. Industrial energy prices in the UK have become the highest in the world... UK gas reserves are alarmingly low and industrial energy prices have reached an all-time high, writes the Telegraph .

“A generation of British leaders have led the country into a crisis, and it really has: to keep the lights on, they will have to pay more and more.”

Last week the UK experienced its coldest January night in 15 years,It was the first real test for the newly formed National Energy System Operator (NESO).

In recent days, Britain has been on the verge of a “blackout”, that is, a total blackout across the UK.

Plunging temperatures and low wind power have left electricity grid operators (NESOs) struggling to keep power flowing. As of 5:30pm on Wednesday, the surplus electricity capacity on the national grid was just 580 megawatts (MW), according to data platform Amira. That level was so low that even the shutdown of a “relatively small” power station would have led to a blackout, The Telegraph notes.

However, Catherine Porter, an independent energy consultant, said: “The UK electricity market came within a whisker of a blackout on January 8. NESO used almost every last megawatt available. This should be a real wake-up call about the dangers of using weather to generate electricity.”

“ Has NESO convinced us that it can provide reliable and affordable supplies? Not at all: it failed on both counts. As a result, private consumers and businesses will face huge additional costs in the coming months. The UK currently has the highest prices for industrial energy anywhere in the world. The country has fallen out of the world’s top ten producers and is increasingly threatened by the electricity ration,” the publication writes.

The UK spends more than three billion pounds a year importing electricity from Europe. Electricity prices in the UK are almost 50% higher than the International Energy Agency’s average prices for industrial electricity and 80% higher for residential customers. British businesses pay four times as much for electricity and consumers pay three times as much as Americans. However, the Labour cabinet remains committed to achieving net zero emissions. This means that “the result will be that the UK will use much more electricity to charge cars and heat homes, even though it is much more expensive than natural gas.”

www.bankingnews.gr

[Texan77]

Britain is freezing

Suicidal energy policies led to the mass deindustrialization
of the former “world factory”

“The UK is facing something worse than blackouts. Industrial energy prices in the UK have become the highest in the world... UK gas reserves are alarmingly low and industrial energy prices have reached an all-time high, writes the Telegraph .

“A generation of British leaders have led the country into a crisis, and it really has: to keep the lights on, they will have to pay more and more.”

Last week the UK experienced its coldest January night in 15 years,It was the first real test for the newly formed National Energy System Operator (NESO).

In recent days, Britain has been on the verge of a “blackout”, that is, a total blackout across the UK.

Plunging temperatures and low wind power have left electricity grid operators (NESOs) struggling to keep power flowing. As of 5:30pm on Wednesday, the surplus electricity capacity on the national grid was just 580 megawatts (MW), according to data platform Amira. That level was so low that even the shutdown of a “relatively small” power station would have led to a blackout, The Telegraph notes.

However, Catherine Porter, an independent energy consultant, said: “The UK electricity market came within a whisker of a blackout on January 8. NESO used almost every last megawatt available. This should be a real wake-up call about the dangers of using weather to generate electricity.”

“ Has NESO convinced us that it can provide reliable and affordable supplies? Not at all: it failed on both counts. As a result, private consumers and businesses will face huge additional costs in the coming months. The UK currently has the highest prices for industrial energy anywhere in the world. The country has fallen out of the world’s top ten producers and is increasingly threatened by the electricity ration,” the publication writes.

The UK spends more than three billion pounds a year importing electricity from Europe. Electricity prices in the UK are almost 50% higher than the International Energy Agency’s average prices for industrial electricity and 80% higher for residential customers. British businesses pay four times as much for electricity and consumers pay three times as much as Americans. However, the Labour cabinet remains committed to achieving net zero emissions. This means that “the result will be that the UK will use much more electricity to charge cars and heat homes, even though it is much more expensive than natural gas.”

www.bankingnews.gr

The bleak UK's outlook makes the USA future look rosy. Maybe you should move to Russia where everything is great. I think your wife speaks the language quite well.

[Wiz]

Britain is freezing

Suicidal energy policies led to the mass deindustrialization
of the former "world factory"

"The UK is facing something worse than blackouts. Industrial energy prices in the UK have become the highest in the world... UK gas reserves are alarmingly low and industrial energy prices have reached an all-time high, writes the Telegraph .

"A generation of British leaders have led the country into a crisis, and it really has: to keep the lights on, they will have to pay more and more."

Last week the UK experienced its coldest January night in 15 years,It was the first real test for the newly formed National Energy System Operator (NESO).

In recent days, Britain has been on the verge of a "blackout", that is, a total blackout across the UK.

Plunging temperatures and low wind power have left electricity grid operators (NESOs) struggling to keep power flowing. As of 5:30pm on Wednesday, the surplus electricity capacity on the national grid was just 580 megawatts (MW), according to data platform Amira. That level was so low that even the shutdown of a "relatively small" power station would have led to a blackout, The Telegraph notes.

However, Catherine Porter, an independent energy consultant, said: "The UK electricity market came within a whisker of a blackout on January 8. NESO used almost every last megawatt available. This should be a real wake-up call about the dangers of using weather to generate electricity."

" Has NESO convinced us that it can provide reliable and affordable supplies? Not at all: it failed on both counts. As a result, private consumers and businesses will face huge additional costs in the coming months. The UK currently has the highest prices for industrial energy anywhere in the world. The country has fallen out of the world's top ten producers and is increasingly threatened by the electricity ration," the publication writes.

The UK spends more than three billion pounds a year importing electricity from Europe. Electricity prices in the UK are almost 50% higher than the International Energy Agency's average prices for industrial electricity and 80% higher for residential customers. British businesses pay four times as much for electricity and consumers pay three times as much as Americans. However, the Labour cabinet remains committed to achieving net zero emissions. This means that "the result will be that the UK will use much more electricity to charge cars and heat homes, even though it is much more expensive than natural gas."

www.bankingnews.gr

The bleak UK's outlook makes the USA future look rosy. Maybe you should move to Russia where everything is great. I think your wife speaks the language quite well.

Watch this binteo .......

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/x6qt_XX_UUM

[Wiz]

Britain is freezing

Suicidal energy policies led to the mass deindustrialization
of the former "world factory"

"The UK is facing something worse than blackouts. Industrial energy prices in the UK have become the highest in the world... UK gas reserves are alarmingly low and industrial energy prices have reached an all-time high, writes the Telegraph .

"A generation of British leaders have led the country into a crisis, and it really has: to keep the lights on, they will have to pay more and more."

Last week the UK experienced its coldest January night in 15 years,It was the first real test for the newly formed National Energy System Operator (NESO).

In recent days, Britain has been on the verge of a "blackout", that is, a total blackout across the UK.

Plunging temperatures and low wind power have left electricity grid operators (NESOs) struggling to keep power flowing. As of 5:30pm on Wednesday, the surplus electricity capacity on the national grid was just 580 megawatts (MW), according to data platform Amira. That level was so low that even the shutdown of a "relatively small" power station would have led to a blackout, The Telegraph notes.

However, Catherine Porter, an independent energy consultant, said: "The UK electricity market came within a whisker of a blackout on January 8. NESO used almost every last megawatt available. This should be a real wake-up call about the dangers of using weather to generate electricity."

" Has NESO convinced us that it can provide reliable and affordable supplies? Not at all: it failed on both counts. As a result, private consumers and businesses will face huge additional costs in the coming months. The UK currently has the highest prices for industrial energy anywhere in the world. The country has fallen out of the world's top ten producers and is increasingly threatened by the electricity ration," the publication writes.

The UK spends more than three billion pounds a year importing electricity from Europe. Electricity prices in the UK are almost 50% higher than the International Energy Agency's average prices for industrial electricity and 80% higher for residential customers. British businesses pay four times as much for electricity and consumers pay three times as much as Americans. However, the Labour cabinet remains committed to achieving net zero emissions. This means that "the result will be that the UK will use much more electricity to charge cars and heat homes, even though it is much more expensive than natural gas."

www.bankingnews.gr

The bleak UK's outlook makes the USA future look rosy. Maybe you should move to Russia where everything is great. I think your wife speaks the language quite well.

Watch this video.......

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/x6qt_XX_UUM

[Wiz]

Britain is freezing

Suicidal energy policies led to the mass deindustrialization
of the former "world factory"

"The UK is facing something worse than blackouts. Industrial energy prices in the UK have become the highest in the world... UK gas reserves are alarmingly low and industrial energy prices have reached an all-time high, writes the Telegraph .

"A generation of British leaders have led the country into a crisis, and it really has: to keep the lights on, they will have to pay more and more."

Last week the UK experienced its coldest January night in 15 years,It was the first real test for the newly formed National Energy System Operator (NESO).

In recent days, Britain has been on the verge of a "blackout", that is, a total blackout across the UK.

Plunging temperatures and low wind power have left electricity grid operators (NESOs) struggling to keep power flowing. As of 5:30pm on Wednesday, the surplus electricity capacity on the national grid was just 580 megawatts (MW), according to data platform Amira. That level was so low that even the shutdown of a "relatively small" power station would have led to a blackout, The Telegraph notes.

However, Catherine Porter, an independent energy consultant, said: "The UK electricity market came within a whisker of a blackout on January 8. NESO used almost every last megawatt available. This should be a real wake-up call about the dangers of using weather to generate electricity."

" Has NESO convinced us that it can provide reliable and affordable supplies? Not at all: it failed on both counts. As a result, private consumers and businesses will face huge additional costs in the coming months. The UK currently has the highest prices for industrial energy anywhere in the world. The country has fallen out of the world's top ten producers and is increasingly threatened by the electricity ration," the publication writes.

The UK spends more than three billion pounds a year importing electricity from Europe. Electricity prices in the UK are almost 50% higher than the International Energy Agency's average prices for industrial electricity and 80% higher for residential customers. British businesses pay four times as much for electricity and consumers pay three times as much as Americans. However, the Labour cabinet remains committed to achieving net zero emissions. This means that "the result will be that the UK will use much more electricity to charge cars and heat homes, even though it is much more expensive than natural gas."

www.bankingnews.gr

Britain is freezing

Suicidal energy policies led to the mass deindustrialization
of the former "world factory"

"The UK is facing something worse than blackouts. Industrial energy prices in the UK have become the highest in the world... UK gas reserves are alarmingly low and industrial energy prices have reached an all-time high, writes the Telegraph .

"A generation of British leaders have led the country into a crisis, and it really has: to keep the lights on, they will have to pay more and more."

Last week the UK experienced its coldest January night in 15 years,It was the first real test for the newly formed National Energy System Operator (NESO).

In recent days, Britain has been on the verge of a "blackout", that is, a total blackout across the UK.

Plunging temperatures and low wind power have left electricity grid operators (NESOs) struggling to keep power flowing. As of 5:30pm on Wednesday, the surplus electricity capacity on the national grid was just 580 megawatts (MW), according to data platform Amira. That level was so low that even the shutdown of a "relatively small" power station would have led to a blackout, The Telegraph notes.

However, Catherine Porter, an independent energy consultant, said: "The UK electricity market came within a whisker of a blackout on January 8. NESO used almost every last megawatt available. This should be a real wake-up call about the dangers of using weather to generate electricity."

" Has NESO convinced us that it can provide reliable and affordable supplies? Not at all: it failed on both counts. As a result, private consumers and businesses will face huge additional costs in the coming months. The UK currently has the highest prices for industrial energy anywhere in the world. The country has fallen out of the world's top ten producers and is increasingly threatened by the electricity ration," the publication writes.

The UK spends more than three billion pounds a year importing electricity from Europe. Electricity prices in the UK are almost 50% higher than the International Energy Agency's average prices for industrial electricity and 80% higher for residential customers. British businesses pay four times as much for electricity and consumers pay three times as much as Americans. However, the Labour cabinet remains committed to achieving net zero emissions. This means that "the result will be that the UK will use much more electricity to charge cars and heat homes, even though it is much more expensive than natural gas."

www.bankingnews.gr

The bleak UK's outlook makes the USA future look rosy. Maybe you should move to Russia where everything is great. I think your wife speaks the language quite well.

Not from our End ....... USA looks to us as a Nation full of gangsters and idiots, unable to save 24 People that died, together with also 1200 houses burnedd out....too!

And That is not the final numbers neither a good picture of a great Nation........you are claining.

As about Britain do not worry ......soon everything will be all back in order..

[WestCoast]

Britain is freezing

Suicidal energy policies led to the mass deindustrialization
of the former "world factory"

"The UK is facing something worse than blackouts. Industrial energy prices in the UK have become the highest in the world... UK gas reserves are alarmingly low and industrial energy prices have reached an all-time high, writes the Telegraph .

"A generation of British leaders have led the country into a crisis, and it really has: to keep the lights on, they will have to pay more and more."

Last week the UK experienced its coldest January night in 15 years,It was the first real test for the newly formed National Energy System Operator (NESO).

In recent days, Britain has been on the verge of a "blackout", that is, a total blackout across the UK.

Plunging temperatures and low wind power have left electricity grid operators (NESOs) struggling to keep power flowing. As of 5:30pm on Wednesday, the surplus electricity capacity on the national grid was just 580 megawatts (MW), according to data platform Amira. That level was so low that even the shutdown of a "relatively small" power station would have led to a blackout, The Telegraph notes.

However, Catherine Porter, an independent energy consultant, said: "The UK electricity market came within a whisker of a blackout on January 8. NESO used almost every last megawatt available. This should be a real wake-up call about the dangers of using weather to generate electricity."

" Has NESO convinced us that it can provide reliable and affordable supplies? Not at all: it failed on both counts. As a result, private consumers and businesses will face huge additional costs in the coming months. The UK currently has the highest prices for industrial energy anywhere in the world. The country has fallen out of the world's top ten producers and is increasingly threatened by the electricity ration," the publication writes.

The UK spends more than three billion pounds a year importing electricity from Europe. Electricity prices in the UK are almost 50% higher than the International Energy Agency's average prices for industrial electricity and 80% higher for residential customers. British businesses pay four times as much for electricity and consumers pay three times as much as Americans. However, the Labour cabinet remains committed to achieving net zero emissions. This means that "the result will be that the UK will use much more electricity to charge cars and heat homes, even though it is much more expensive than natural gas."

www.bankingnews.gr

The bleak UK's outlook makes the USA future look rosy. Maybe you should move to Russia where everything is great. I think your wife speaks the language quite well.

Watch this binteo .......

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/x6qt_XX_UUM

China has a rubber stamp parliament. Xi gets passed in parliament what he wants passed. So things tend to go smoothly. Don't know where the video is filmed. But I've never ridden a train in China that was that empty.

Wiz if you're that in love with China why not move to China?

[Contrarian]

Britain is freezing

Suicidal energy policies led to the mass deindustrialization
of the former “world factory”

“The UK is facing something worse than blackouts. Industrial energy prices in the UK have become the highest in the world... UK gas reserves are alarmingly low and industrial energy prices have reached an all-time high, writes the Telegraph .

“A generation of British leaders have led the country into a crisis, and it really has: to keep the lights on, they will have to pay more and more.”

Last week the UK experienced its coldest January night in 15 years,It was the first real test for the newly formed National Energy System Operator (NESO).

In recent days, Britain has been on the verge of a “blackout”, that is, a total blackout across the UK.

Plunging temperatures and low wind power have left electricity grid operators (NESOs) struggling to keep power flowing. As of 5:30pm on Wednesday, the surplus electricity capacity on the national grid was just 580 megawatts (MW), according to data platform Amira. That level was so low that even the shutdown of a “relatively small” power station would have led to a blackout, The Telegraph notes.

However, Catherine Porter, an independent energy consultant, said: “The UK electricity market came within a whisker of a blackout on January 8. NESO used almost every last megawatt available. This should be a real wake-up call about the dangers of using weather to generate electricity.”

“ Has NESO convinced us that it can provide reliable and affordable supplies? Not at all: it failed on both counts. As a result, private consumers and businesses will face huge additional costs in the coming months. The UK currently has the highest prices for industrial energy anywhere in the world. The country has fallen out of the world’s top ten producers and is increasingly threatened by the electricity ration,” the publication writes.

The UK spends more than three billion pounds a year importing electricity from Europe. Electricity prices in the UK are almost 50% higher than the International Energy Agency’s average prices for industrial electricity and 80% higher for residential customers. British businesses pay four times as much for electricity and consumers pay three times as much as Americans. However, the Labour cabinet remains committed to achieving net zero emissions. This means that “the result will be that the UK will use much more electricity to charge cars and heat homes, even though it is much more expensive than natural gas.”

www.bankingnews.gr

Crazy that elderly people and others are suffering in the UK from lack of electricity to properly heat their homes.

However your politicians have sent Billions of dollars to the nearly failed state of Ukraine to fight a losing war. 

[Texan77]

Please go to Somala and see what a failed state really looks like. I hope you survive the visit which would be in doubt if you go very far from hotel room if you get to the room in the first place. Letting Russia win the war is not going to make anything in the west better. It will only lead to more wars. Right now, Putin is trading economic stability in Russia for land in Ukraine. Ukraine has more land than Russia has stability if Trump will push it.

Britain has all the problems the USA has only worse. The wealthy have already started to flee the country and taking their money with them making the situation worse. Many are moving to the USA as bad as it is here it is better than any other English-speaking countries.

[Texan77]

This in Indian news might help explain it. You guys living there should know this is real. Contrarian, You think the west cannot afford the war while Russia is being totally wiped out.

[Wiz]

Texan do you ever go out of your house?
It appears that you never do.......and looks that all you americans do nothing else thenreading news and talking rubish avoiding to make any comments for thae fire crap that is going on right now in the LA area.........

Just for your info my wife and I, after our wedding in 2008, we have managed to travel abroad to European destinations 33 hot or warm places so far, excluding my wife visiting home in Russia 3 times dusing the past 3 years only!

Do you ever get out of your house? I guess you don't!

 

[AvHdB]

I have spoken to both my daughter, living & working in London. She plans to bike to Westminster on Monday.
 
My ex lives close to Scotland and the evening/night temperatures are a few degrees under freezing.

Please stop with the drama! You are sounding like bunch of ninnies.

Want to check, there is a site called the weather channel. Use it!

[Contrarian]

I have spoken to both my daughter, living & working in London. She plans to bike to Westminster on Monday.
 
My ex lives close to Scotland and the evening/night temperatures are a few degrees under freezing.

Please stop with the drama! You are sounding like bunch of ninnies.

Want to check, there is a site called the weather channel. Use it!

No, we are not a bunch of ninnies. You are flippant because your ex-wife and daughter have the financial means and good health such that they are not dying of hyperthermia.

According to this article, 24 people a day are dying similar deaths to the one described. It's not "drama" to bring attention to a serious problem for the elderly.

quote

Our national indifference to this terrible scene happening in thousands of cold homes across the country every winter is shocking, writes our Chief Executive Dr Carole Easton OBE.

This week, we learned more details about the heart-breaking last few weeks of Barbara Bolton – an 87-year-old great-grandmother from Bury who died from hypothermia after raising fears with her doctor that she could not afford to heat her home. Mrs Bolton, who only retired from her job as a pharmacy assistant five years earlier, was reportedly fixated with the worry of putting her heating on because of fears about incurring high energy bills. Medics found Mrs Bolton had a body temperature of just 28C, compared with the normal 37C.

In recording a conclusion of misadventure, the coroner described Mrs Bolton as “a remarkable woman”. And yet what is telling from this case is that, despite almost all of the national newspapers covering the details of her inquest, the circumstances of Mrs Bolton’s death were distinctly unremarkable.

The fact is that roughly 9,000 people who die in cold homes in England and Wales every year, many in similar circumstances to Mrs Bolton.

https://ageing-better.org.uk/blogs/why-are-9000-annual-cold-home-deaths-met-such-shrug-indifference

[AvHdB]

I have spoken to both my daughter, living & working in London. She plans to bike to Westminster on Monday.
 
My ex lives close to Scotland and the evening/night temperatures are a few degrees under freezing.

Please stop with the drama! You are sounding like bunch of ninnies.

Want to check, there is a site called the weather channel. Use it!

No, we are not a bunch of ninnies. You are flippant because your ex-wife and daughter have the financial means and good health such that they are not dying of hyperthermia.

According to this article, 24 people a day are dying similar deaths to the one described. It's not "drama" to bring attention to a serious problem for the elderly.

quote

Our national indifference to this terrible scene happening in thousands of cold homes across the country every winter is shocking, writes our Chief Executive Dr Carole Easton OBE.

This week, we learned more details about the heart-breaking last few weeks of Barbara Bolton – an 87-year-old great-grandmother from Bury who died from hypothermia after raising fears with her doctor that she could not afford to heat her home. Mrs Bolton, who only retired from her job as a pharmacy assistant five years earlier, was reportedly fixated with the worry of putting her heating on because of fears about incurring high energy bills. Medics found Mrs Bolton had a body temperature of just 28C, compared with the normal 37C.

In recording a conclusion of misadventure, the coroner described Mrs Bolton as “a remarkable woman”. And yet what is telling from this case is that, despite almost all of the national newspapers covering the details of her inquest, the circumstances of Mrs Bolton’s death were distinctly unremarkable.

The fact is that roughly 9,000 people who die in cold homes in England and Wales every year, many in similar circumstances to Mrs Bolton.

https://ageing-better.org.uk/blogs/why-are-9000-annual-cold-home-deaths-met-such-shrug-indifference

Take the data for The United States and add (you can add?) the two leading causes of winter deaths and extrapolate that to population of UK and get back to us.

I would note that hypothermia adversely affects both the very young as well as the very old disproportionately.

https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm6151a6.htm

https://www.cdc.gov/MMWR/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5650a1.htm

[Contrarian]

I have spoken to both my daughter, living & working in London. She plans to bike to Westminster on Monday.
 
My ex lives close to Scotland and the evening/night temperatures are a few degrees under freezing.

Please stop with the drama! You are sounding like bunch of ninnies.

Want to check, there is a site called the weather channel. Use it!

No, we are not a bunch of ninnies. You are flippant because your ex-wife and daughter have the financial means and good health such that they are not dying of hyperthermia.

According to this article, 24 people a day are dying similar deaths to the one described. It's not "drama" to bring attention to a serious problem for the elderly.

quote

Our national indifference to this terrible scene happening in thousands of cold homes across the country every winter is shocking, writes our Chief Executive Dr Carole Easton OBE.

This week, we learned more details about the heart-breaking last few weeks of Barbara Bolton – an 87-year-old great-grandmother from Bury who died from hypothermia after raising fears with her doctor that she could not afford to heat her home. Mrs Bolton, who only retired from her job as a pharmacy assistant five years earlier, was reportedly fixated with the worry of putting her heating on because of fears about incurring high energy bills. Medics found Mrs Bolton had a body temperature of just 28C, compared with the normal 37C.

In recording a conclusion of misadventure, the coroner described Mrs Bolton as “a remarkable woman”. And yet what is telling from this case is that, despite almost all of the national newspapers covering the details of her inquest, the circumstances of Mrs Bolton’s death were distinctly unremarkable.

The fact is that roughly 9,000 people who die in cold homes in England and Wales every year, many in similar circumstances to Mrs Bolton.

https://ageing-better.org.uk/blogs/why-are-9000-annual-cold-home-deaths-met-such-shrug-indifference

Take the data for The United States and add (you can add?) the two leading causes of winter deaths and extrapolate that to population of UK and get back to us.

I would note that hypothermia adversely affects both the very young as well as the very old disproportionately.

https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm6151a6.htm

https://www.cdc.gov/MMWR/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5650a1.htm

Trying to change the goal posts, so as not to look foolish?

We were talking about Britain, not the USA. In fact the title of the thread is "Britain is freezing", or can't you read?