Just after midday the National Energy System Operator issued a blackout warning to UK-wide electricity generators thanks to a reduced wind speeds and outages in nuclear power stations. The first time the notice has been issued since November 2022…
Wind and solar are meeting just 10% of the grid’s electricity each as the ‘capacity notice‘ warns a power demand spike in the late afternoon could overwhelm spare capacity. NESO insists the notice is a “standard tool used to remind capacity market providers of their obligations.” Just six days ago it boasted that “small-scale renewables” have much-reduced the risk of blackout warnings this winter. Low wind and the loss of every last coal power station in Britain have delivered a harsh dose of reality to that one…
Green Deputy Leader Rachel Millward said:
“The reality is that it’s Zack Polanski who brought the nation, Andy Burnham. And if we hadn’t had the success of the Green Party in this last year since Zack’s been leading, which has been unprecedented, phenomenal success and a growth from about 60,000 members to 230,000, if we hadn’t had that much pressure on Labour, then we’d probably still be in the Starmer regime, which was pretty much ushering in a Reform government with its lurch to the right. So actually, what we’re seeing now is that we’ve set the political agenda and the government is picking that up.”