Britain forced to fire up coal plant amid record power prices and winter squeeze
Green patina ambitions and renewable energy have a rendezvous with reality. Yes, so far network managers and engineers were able to mask the worst effects of wind and solar from the consumer. But with an ever-larger portfolio of such sources that eat into the reliable energy market, that becomes ever harder to do. You may confidently assume that whatever you feel right now is just the tiny tip of a massive iceberg of inflexibility the net is saddled with. When it topples over from it own weight, it will get biblical. In the beginning, there was darkness. Then comes the bill.
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