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<blockquote data-quote="ollie989898" data-source="post: 7793334" data-attributes="member: 54866"><p>The government de-regulated the energy markets years ago and wanted to make it a competitive marketplace.</p><p></p><p>It is possible to start your own energy company and sell energy to customers despite you not actually owning or operating any generating plant. You merely buy it wholesale and sell it retail to your own customers who of course, you have to get the money out of. The big energy generators would rather sell shed loads of electricity wholesale to other companies than go around collecting millions of retail KWh 'crumbs' from householders when the bills are often so tiny they don't pay the postage on a stamp.</p><p></p><p>So loads of wannabe energy companies started up. They made money. Because new renewable grid capacity was coming online all the time. These suppliers were being subsidised by government for every KWh produced so they produced whatever they could even if the wholesale price of energy was beyond pants- the electricity was being generated for 'free' and the government subsidy was paying for the install cost of their plant.</p><p></p><p>Now you have the reverse situation.</p><p></p><p>Gas is as expensive as fudge. Unfortunately the UK burns a LOT of gas to make electricity because Tony Blair decided on that decades ago. They shut all the coal or oil fired plants or converted them to gas. Building a gas powerplant is dirt cheap because you just pipe the gas in, there is no material to store, handle or dispose of. It's childsplay. Turn one tap and press ignition. Bingo.</p><p></p><p>This week it has been pretty dull, cool and no wind. It's not totally anticyclonic but that is what we would call it in winter. No wind. Cool conditions. So your solar and wind generating capacity is doing fudge all and the electricity companies are scratching their heads because suddenly gas is expensive and they consume mind boggling amounts of gas every second they are running their powerplants.</p><p></p><p>The French meanwhile, are laughing their asses off because their country is mostly nuclear powered and the price of uranium could increase 100 times and it wouldn't do much to their costs.</p><p></p><p>Basically, we should have started building 6 new reactors in about the year 2000.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ollie989898, post: 7793334, member: 54866"] The government de-regulated the energy markets years ago and wanted to make it a competitive marketplace. It is possible to start your own energy company and sell energy to customers despite you not actually owning or operating any generating plant. You merely buy it wholesale and sell it retail to your own customers who of course, you have to get the money out of. The big energy generators would rather sell shed loads of electricity wholesale to other companies than go around collecting millions of retail KWh 'crumbs' from householders when the bills are often so tiny they don't pay the postage on a stamp. So loads of wannabe energy companies started up. They made money. Because new renewable grid capacity was coming online all the time. These suppliers were being subsidised by government for every KWh produced so they produced whatever they could even if the wholesale price of energy was beyond pants- the electricity was being generated for 'free' and the government subsidy was paying for the install cost of their plant. Now you have the reverse situation. Gas is as expensive as fudge. Unfortunately the UK burns a LOT of gas to make electricity because Tony Blair decided on that decades ago. They shut all the coal or oil fired plants or converted them to gas. Building a gas powerplant is dirt cheap because you just pipe the gas in, there is no material to store, handle or dispose of. It's childsplay. Turn one tap and press ignition. Bingo. This week it has been pretty dull, cool and no wind. It's not totally anticyclonic but that is what we would call it in winter. No wind. Cool conditions. So your solar and wind generating capacity is doing fudge all and the electricity companies are scratching their heads because suddenly gas is expensive and they consume mind boggling amounts of gas every second they are running their powerplants. The French meanwhile, are laughing their asses off because their country is mostly nuclear powered and the price of uranium could increase 100 times and it wouldn't do much to their costs. Basically, we should have started building 6 new reactors in about the year 2000. [/QUOTE]
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