Green energy participation awards will become Darwin Awards
Tom KirkmanIndependent Project Manager
Green Energy Unicorn Participation Awards will soon become Green Energy Darwin Awards.
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“… when producing the latest Future Energy Scenarios (FES) report, the National Grid ESO (NG ESO) seems to have come up with a way to shoehorn in every wacky energy idea but has failed to apply the economic and thermodynamic reality filters.
… Despite claiming their new pathway approach has created “credible” choices to propel us on the route to decarbonisation, it is clear the opposite is true.
This is a report where all technologies must have prizes regardless of the technical or economic viability.
Many of the technologies they are recommending are unproven at scale and woeful economics.
… They are obviously somewhat concerned about energy scarcity and intermittency because of their emphasis on TOUTs and automatic control of appliances.
Instead of re-thinking and coming up with a plan for energy abundance, they continue down the path of expensive, scarce energy and Big Brother controls.
If this were just another think-tank spouting nonsense it would not matter very much, but the National Grid Electricity System Operator (NG ESO) is transforming into the National Energy System Operator (NESO), where they are supposed to be planning the entire energy system.
If this is the best they can do, we are in big trouble. …”