National Grid warns Britons to lose power on ‘really cold’ evenings – Are you enjoying that?

Essay by Eric Worrall

WUWT recently reported how Conservative Party rebels sabotaged Liz Truss’ attempt to increase domestic gas supplies by allowing mining. Britain may soon pay the price.

National Grid warns Britons without power on ‘really cold’ evenings

FT conference hears about many ‘unlikely’ situations in which UK may not have enough energy

Nathalie Thomas, Energy Reporter October 18, 2022

The National Grid chief executive has warned UK households to prepare for power outages between 4pm and 7pm on “really very cold” weekdays during January and February in school. decrease in gas imports from Europe.

John Pettigrew said the company would have to impose a total power cut on “the deepest evenings of January and February” if generators do not secure enough gas from the continent to meet demand. especially if the country is affected by cold weather.

Pettigrew’s opinion at Financial Times Energy Transformation Summit comes after National Grid, Britain’s electricity and gas system watchdog, this month has unusual step poses various “unlikely” scenarios in which the UK may not have an adequate energy supply this winter.

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In those “worst” cases, electricity would be cut off to parts of the country for up to three hours “possibly between 4 p.m. and 7 p.m. on weekday evenings when it gets really hot.” cold in January and February,” says Pettigrew.

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I would love to know why John PettigrewCEO of National borderconsiders energy shortage scenarios “unlikely”.

Britain and Europe could have a mild winter – the possibility does exist. UK MET is forecasting a mild winteralthough they do not rule out the possibility of cold spells.

If winter weather turns nasty, there could be a serious energy shortage.

I doubt Russian gas will come to the rescue. There seems to be little prospect of an imminent explosion of common sense in the Russia/Ukraine conflict. Both parties are currently in a transaction that requires the other want to detonate a radioactive dirty bomb In Kherson.

As long as the conflict drags on, Europe will remain cut off from Russia’s formerly reliable gas supplies. What the gas goes through will depend on the geopolitical game.

President Biden offered to supply US gas to Europe, but plans to export US gas to Britain and Europe could be disrupted this winter. Northeast US is short of gas due to incompetent energy policyso, if the Northeast winter turns cold, it seems likely that there will be a need to redirect U.S. fossil fuel exports back to U.S. consumers.

The situation in Europe without Russian gas is very serious. Germany is so worried about energy shortages, they are preparing for riots, preparing special teams of federal police to maintain order in the event of a general breakdown in society – so I doubt Germany will agree to give Britain any of its share of Europe’s gas supply.

Britain has a large electrical link with France, so Britain has access to French nuclear capabilities. But France is currently having a big problem with its nuclear reactors, a significant portion of their nuclear fleet has been closed for maintenance, due to concerns about corrosion. If winter turns cold, France will most likely take care of its people first, and keep the energy to themselves.

Liz Truss, to her credit, tried to do something about the shortage, but British Conservative rebels sabotage Liz Truss’ last attempt to increase domestic gas, by attaching a lengthy review process to any attempt to enable a jailbreak. I had my doubts about Liz, but she really put herself in the position of trying to alleviate England’s horrifying winter energy shortages – only to be knocked down by short-sighted people at her party. me.

So it seems real that Britain will face at least some period of energy and heating insecurity this winter.

If this winter turns cold, and electricity and heat fail, civil unrest and riots could break out.

I don’t think the politicians who have undermined British and German energy security fully appreciate where the mess they have created can lead. They seemed smugly confident that they were safe from any unrest among the peasants.

Update from Breitbart, the new British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has restore ban on jailbreak.