Originally Posted by
staplefordheli
"they are to supply autonomous communities off grid and then they are a great backup to fossil fuelled gen sets."
Wouldn't you have the fossil fuelled gen sets as a back up for Wind Power in autonomous off grid communities ?
On a cost basis alone to start with.
Genuine question.
Yeh sorry got that round the wrong way
What I meant is that its is your own choice if you chose to be on a wind turbine ort solar PV off Grid and live with the consequence. Either maintain some sort of fossil fuelled or wood burning backup for heating and power when the renewable power sources are out of their generation window or live the with consequence of no power
The rest of us on grid want to know for certain that even in the coldest stillest winter night, we will still have 100% electrical supply
That means of course that in a privatised world, someone has to pay to keep assets online not generating to be used when the turbines and PV arrays stop generating and of course with the gas supply used for domestic heating increasingly wasted as fast buck for power generation, and now looking a decidedly unstable supply, we could be heading for the rocks in the next bad winter. Domestic produced coal fired and a number of modern nuclear stations are the only way to guarantee a stable grid even if through politics, they just sit there on standby. anyhow we drifted off radar somehow
Wot you mean like giving the control of fissile materials to a profit driven organisation? **** off!