Electricity - the disaster preparedness thread

[Leo]

Wow, they'll lose power in space to?!?!

how would you receive that signal from space if you don't have power here?

 

[IdleRich]

UK shut down 80% of gas storage a few years ago, so now we have a few days in reserve.

A shift to renewables which don't really deliver at scale.

Russian gas diplomacy.

Electric vehicle demand.

Also, cos for some reason - I forget why - the UK left the European Energy syndicate thing (I dunno the real name obviously) and thus drastically reduced their energy buying power and leverage relative to their European neighbours.

 

[sufi]

Also, cos for some reason - I forget why - the UK left the European Energy syndicate thing (I dunno the real name obviously) and thus drastically reduced their energy buying power and leverage relative to their European neighbours.

Will the French cut off our electricity supply over fishing row?

What is the latest row about?Last week the government announced which French boats would be given licences to fish within 6-12 miles off the UK coastline.But of

www.thetimes.co.uk

 

[IdleRich]

Oh yeah, this is a new thing isn't it? Surely not though.... would they?

 

[sufi]

how well do you think hospital would run?

like so apparently

Human Powered Neighbourhood: The Hospital

The first carbon-neutral district in the Netherlands says no to modern healthcare, which is completely dependent on fossil fuels. Yet the inhabitants are just as healthy as other Dutch people. Collage: Golnar Abbasi & Arvand Pourabbasi. Lees dit artikel in het Nederlands. How sustainable is...

www.humanpowerplant.be

 

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Britain’s electricity grid operator is investigating unexplained power plant failures that hit the UK’s system hours before Spain and Portugal were plunged into blackouts.

Control room staff at the National Energy System Operator (Neso) observed unusual activity on Sunday that saw the power frequency shift unexpectedly in the early morning and the evening.

The first event began at around 2am with a power failure at the Keadby 2 gas-fired power plant in Lincolnshire, followed by the unexplained failure of the Viking Link interconnector between the UK and Denmark.

At around 6pm, the frequency shifted unexpectedly again – with the cause currently unknown.

 

[version]

It's The Telegraph reporting so they chucked in some line about a bloke blaming Spain's reliance on renewables. The official quotes are people saying it's highly unlikely the issues in Britain are linked to those in Europe, so maybe it's nothing and they're just capitalising on the news cycle.

 

[catalog]

Trams broke today in mcr