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Re:The UK is wasting a lot of wind power by mytailorisrich on Thursday January 12, 2023 @03:33PM (#34359879)
The solution is to upgrade the national grid.

This is needed anyway because it is already maxed out and demand will dramatically increase with the transition to EVs.

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Re:The UK is wasting a lot of wind power by scrlk on Thursday January 12, 2023 @04:31PM (#34360530)
Tell that to Ofgem. The latest price settlement for electricity transmission and distribution networks (RIIO-T2 and RIIO-ED2) has cut the amount of investment the networks are allowed to carry out.
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Re:The UK is wasting a lot of wind power by mytailorisrich on Thursday January 12, 2023 @05:25PM (#34361119)
I bought a petrol generator even before Covid.
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