Re: energy in UK

On 23/04/2025 4:29 am, KevinJ93 wrote:

On 4/22/25 9:52 AM, john larkin wrote:

On Wed, 16 Apr 2025 09:33:07 +0100, liz@poppyrecords.invalid.invalid
(Liz Tuddenham) wrote:
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Martin Brown <'''newspam'''@nonad.co.uk> wrote:
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are even schemes to reward home users not to use power at peak times.

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I've noticed that my recent electricity bills have a 'Disconnection
Rota" designator printed on them.  I haven't agreed to anything like
that, so I presume it is in anticipation of enforced power cuts.

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China is building a big coal-powered power plant a week. Maybe the UK
can run a long cable and buy electricity from them.

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 Many of those are to replace aging, inefficient, highly polluting plants.
 The number of new approvals has dropped significantly recently while the amount of coal fired generation has actually gone down even though electricity consumption has increased.
 https://cleantechnica.com/2025/04/20/chinas-coal-generation-dropped-5-yoy-in-q1-as-electricity-demand-increased/

John Larkin gets his misinformation from climate change denial websites. They do a lot of lying by omission. John Larkin doesn't seem to know enough to notice, and is too vain to admit that he has been suckered.
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Bill Sloman, Sydney