MSE News: Energy bills to rise £30/year by 2020 to ward off winter blackouts

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joncombe wrote: »

And what would this £30 be spent on - the article doesn't say.

It will be used as a pay energy generators to keep old and inefficient power stations available for use in the event of high power demand or, for example, a nuclear power station safety shutdown and for more diesel generation farms.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/oct/12/national-grid-two-coal-plants-to-get-77m-to-be-on-standby-this-winter

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2016/10/17/dirty-diesel-generators-in-line-for-uk-subsidies/

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lstar337 wrote: »

A nice sized PV array would take care of all those Peak units.

It would if the sun ever came out in December. Yesterday, my PV array generated 0.4kWhs. I had better put the Christmas turkey on today.