YOU are to be congratulated for running an excellent article by Paul Sheerin on the chaotic electricity generation and distribution “system” we now possess in the UK (“Expensive but essential: Grid investments key to powering the UK economy”, The Herald, November 18).
Congratulations too to The Herald for being among the minority of the UK press astute enough to seek commentary from professional engineers such as Mr Sheerin rather than running the usual delusional nonsense espoused by various pressure-lobby five-minute “engineers”.
It must be glaringly obvious to even the least technical of our politicians that cold, dull calm weather is the ultimate challenge to the renewables fantasy.
Today (November 18)
Scotland is exporting 28 MW (just 2% of the capacity of Torness which is running flat out but will be shut down by 2030), UK wind and solar is generating 8% of our needs whilst gas and nuclear are having to provide circa 64% of our demand.
In addition we are importing 14.32% of our needs from Europe.
In the past year the UK has imported circa 30TWH and exported circa 8TWH of electricity so we have become a huge importer of electricity.
What do our politicos not grasp?
DB Watson, Cumbernauld.
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