Having dispatched Trilemma1 to Room 101 let me now try and place a finger in the dyke of Trilemma2 recently proposed by Mr Marchant before it is taken seriously by anyone and a dam wall breaks flooding regulators with confusion and obfuscation that is not required. Trilemma2 has raised three related but simple issues; Flexibility…
Ian Marchant, ex CEO of SSE and ex IE President, has suggested we need a second Trilemma (see below). However, as the first Trilemma achieved nothing, the second is surely a step in the wrong direction. The first trilemma was a brain teaser that the power industry created where it was befuddled into doing very…
Not being an experienced observer of the political machine at work hasn’t deterred me from mulling over what the first few weeks of a new Government mean for energy. Amber Rudd MP, our new Secretary of State for Energy & Climate Change, blogged on 27 May 2015; what did she say? It might be more…
Electricity generation from wind and solar PV is intermittent, so as the % of renewables increases, the UK will have a need for grid scale electricity storage, right? After all, storage already exists in the form of the 1.7GW Dinorwig pumped-storage hydroelectric plant in Wales and its sister facility. On the flip side, Germany with…