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MSE News: Energy bills to rise £30/year by 2020 to ward off winter blackouts
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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/This is a system account and does not represent a real person. To contact the Forum Team email forumteam@moneysavingexpert.com0 -
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.This is a system account and does not represent a real person. To contact the Forum Team email forumteam@moneysavingexpert.com0
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