Britain came “within a whisker of blackouts” on Wednesday after plunging temperatures and low wind power generation left electricity grid operators struggling to keep the lights on. The Telegraph has the story.
At 5.30pm on Wednesday, the spare electricity capacity on the national grid had fallen to just 580 megawatts (MW), according to data platform Amira.
That level was so low that even an outage at a “relatively small” power station “would have caused an actual shortage and triggered blackouts”, one expert warned.
The National Energy System Operator (Neso), which manages the grid, repeatedly denied on Wednesday that there was ever a risk of blackouts and insisted it had been able to meet demand using “routine tools”.
Neso previously predicted that the amount of spare power available during the coldest weeks of winter would be the highest it had been in five years.
But Kathryn Porter, an independent energy consultant, said: “On January 8th, the GB power market came within a whisker of blackouts. Neso used almost every last megawatt available.
“This should be a real wake-up call about the dangers of relying on weather-based generation.”
Paul Homewood comments:
This particular near miss appears to have caught the Neso by surprise, because demand turned out to be 3 GW higher than anticipated three days before. And as Kathryn points out, alarm bells are already ringing for Friday evening, when winds are forecast to be even lighter than last night.
Why did we get into this awful mess?
It does not take a genius to work out why. We shut down more than 20 GW of reliable coal capacity, and thought we could replace it with medieval technology that only works when the wind blows!
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Come what may the WHO was determined to get its own way. This charade has nothing to do with looking after health. The reality, let’s be blunt is to legalise genocide.
Will this mean that Billy’s new brew is going to be released? Most definitely because running alongside population reduction is the next set of mRNA injections. The money makers. I still expect another Scamdemic starting winter 2024 although if they can’t stop The Donald it could be earlier.
In our favour I believe that as the C1984 excess deaths stories become more visible and as the climate BS wakes more people up more of them will make the correct connections and start to kick back.
‘It’s war Jim, but not as we know it.’
Surprised but pleased to see The UK is taking the info back to parliament to have a better look at it , however these WHO clowns
are not going to let it go are they ! Ter-orist Ted is just another useful idiot as is Biden , Khant , Trudeau , Macron, Ballsak etc , the world is surely sick of his unelected mush preaching bollocks day after F ing day 
I have no faith whatsoever in our politicians. We will still be stitched up.
Agreed & although our shower are looking at it like you I’m sceptical that it will be thrown out !!
I was thinking of the Archbishop too who tried to get Calvin Robinson cancelled who had only just become a member of the clergy. My farther was one!
“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. They may be more likely to go to Heaven yet at the same time likelier to make a Hell of earth. This very kindness stings with intolerable insult. To be “cured” against one’s will and cured of states which we may not regard as disease is to be put on a level of those who have not yet reached the age of reason or those who never will; to be classed with infants, imbeciles, and domestic animals”
C.S. Lewis
Probably the most succinct summing up of mankind’s left / right thinking , it is absolutely brilliant !!
It just proves that the Rona scamdemic was a pilot project. Hard on that medical Nazism we have the globalist powers trying to cement the totalitarian protocols, of fake emergency-lockdowns-diapers-stabs into ‘law’. Not a cockup. Not a vaxxcidence.
National bureaucracies following orders from a global bureaucracy all of them at the behest and for the benefit of a corporate oligarchy.
That’s the world order we now live in.
I’m better prepared than I was first time around for the next pandemic of evil lies, and I think a lot of other people are too
Until cash is withdrawn & the electric is rationed
Don’t worry about stuff like this. Not because the future is going to be a lot better but because the cascading events that are inevitable now will make concerns about these prats look trivial. I am glad though that in the end-times all of this evil is being exposed. Even the deeper lesson or the nature of the demonic energy that is the progenitor of all of this is being intuited which is a nexessary step for the evoluton of the divine anthropos. Like Dylan said, you don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.
The world can manage perfectly well without the UN, the EU, or the World Health Organization. All of them need to be abolished.
They definitely do
Honestly in mid August we will be in a very different situation. I wonder how many people will be talking about a winnable war at that point. On every level we cannot win that war. There is no point in me saying it because it will have to be learned from circumstance.
The U.K. has deferred the decision for the next / incoming set of reprobates AKA the government to make.
Let’s be honest, we know they’ll accept whatever amendments are put forward to achieve the aim of total subjugation of the people.
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/uk-statement-at-77th-world-health-assembly-on-ihr-amendments
Exactly.
Fishy has probably told the Davos mob –
‘look, I’m taking one for the team by destroying the Conservative Party but I’m not being blamed for giving away UK sovereignty. Give that job to Kneel.’
I think we can expect another hyped-up “health emergency” this winter. Currently Bird Flu looks to be the Tyrants most likely choice.
Do your best to ignore them.
Unfortunately the recommendations in the conclusion of this article will never happen.
The UN was effectively set up to exercise authority over member states. It will always be used by globalists to attack the concept of national sovereignty.
As long as people talk about “international law” as a valid concept, they are accepting the globalist view of a supra-national authority able to make such “law”.
You cannot have true law without sovereignty, and sovereignty should belong with nation states, not with a bunch of unaccountable, undemocratic bureaucrats waffling in the United Nations.