Ian Tricerri ⚒🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧🇮🇹

Wind is this morning meeting less than 5% of our electricity needs and a mere 3% of total electricity generating wind capacity is currently being utilised — simply because there is so little wind. Yes, I know there are days when wind generates much more. But, until ways are devised of storing at scale and economically the electricity generated on these days, that is frankly irrelevant. The huge cost of alternative back up generation (eg gas) for days like this is only one of many reasons why claims that renewables generate the cheapest electricity are disingenuous. Yet politicians and the Grifters of the Green Blob continue to lie about this on an industrial scale.