Oh what the absolute fuck.
If you actually go to the power company’s own damn website (i.e. the primary source), it’s actually some sort of (ill-advised IMO) sales promotion thing, not the dire warning implying brownouts or whatever that all the headlines are spinning it to be. British media should be fucking ashamed of itself.
Whilst not quite the daily mail or telegraph levels of egregiousness, the independent is another paper owned by an ultra wealthy.
A good amount of the wealthy’s wealth is often in oil
It’s in their interest to promote anti environmentalism
It’s therefore in all of our interests to ignore such papers on these issues
Doesn’t seem plausible to me, in the winter we get less than 8 hours of daylight in the UK and it’s often cloudy, it’s completely dark well before the time the eclipse happens in December/January. In August when we get 15+ hours of daylight, what is an extra shadow (it’s not even total in the UK) going to really do?
Well, its about all solar pannels producing energy in one second, and none in the next. And when the overall netload is lower, its easier to balance out these peaks.
Solar currently only generates 30% of UK grid electricity.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_power_in_the_United_Kingdom
For a region that clouds over and rains quite often, you’d think the grid could handle an hour without sunshine during an eclipse. What do they do every night when the sun goes down? Does everyone across the UK just turn everything off? 😂