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Re:Record wind and solar saved UK from gas imports worth £1B... by pjc50 on Tuesday April 07, 2026 @10:44AM (#47676235)
Yeah, we're (UK) only just at the "occasionally cheap 100% renewables" state, and it's maddeningly slow progress. But it seems like a lot of things are suddenly coming online, like battery storage, and the Scotland-England grid upgrade will happen in the next few years. https://eandt.theiet.org/2026/04/02/ps12bn-plan-upgrade-scot...
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Re:Record wind and solar saved UK from gas imports worth £1B... by rcxdude on Tuesday April 07, 2026 @11:16AM (#47676706)
The transition will probably be quite nonlinear: getting from zero to a few days a year of 100% renewables is about as much effort as going from a few days a year to most of the year.
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Re:Record wind and solar saved UK from gas imports worth £1B... by 7952 on Tuesday April 07, 2026 @01:49PM (#47678856)
Plug in solar could be like that.
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Re:Record wind and solar saved UK from gas imports worth £1B... by ErroneousBosh on Tuesday April 07, 2026 @02:45PM (#47679628)
> and the Scotland-England grid upgrade will happen in the next few years.

I hope not. We're currently getting shafted by National Grid pricing, and this is only going to mean we get to pay even more for electricity where it's generated while the south coast of the UK gets it cheap.

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Re:Record wind and solar saved UK from gas imports worth £1B... by benj111 on Tuesday April 07, 2026 @04:10PM (#47680736)
We get that now. They were looking in to zonal pricing last year but backed out.
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