Scotland could not leave the grid
IAIN McIntyre (Letters, October 15) presents a biased and distorted view of
the UK’s electricity generation system.
indicates, it is a national system. The NG is mandated to provide a stable
and 100 per cent reliable electricity supply at the lowest overall cost
utilising many generating sources spread around the country – and abroad
via interconnectors. Trying to set different prices in different parts of
the country depending on local generating technologies, as Mr McIntyre
proposes, would be fraught with major difficulties, particularly on
security and reliability of supply.
If, as I suspect he is hinting, Scotland were to be decoupled from the NG,
and relying on Mr McIntyre’s claimed 81% of “cheap renewable sources”,
Scotland would have to endure prolonged and frequent blackouts when the
wind isn’t blowing and solar is not generating at nights.
Neither would our electricity be cheap, as claimed, since the huge
renewable subsidy costs and constraint payments would have to be borne by
Scottish bill payers alone rather than shared across the whole UK as at
present.
GM Lindsay, Kinross.
• CAN I assume the letters (October 17) from Aileen Jackson and Geoff Moore
were intentionally placed together? If so, very clever.
Perhaps Mr Moore should have mentioned wind turbines in his exclusion
month. Very seldom mentioned, if indeed ever, is the fact that they require
oil to function. I often wonder why that is?
Dan Edgar, Rothesay.
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