They also think that we can generate all our energy from renewables. That's not the truth! ALL renewable energy has to be backed up.There is no energy generated on windless nights for example so we end up paying double. If was true energy co's would have done it years ago £

The cat 🐈 😻 is ready to go

I asked in the Lords why the government leaves out the costs of extra grid, backup gas power costs, and payments to windfarms not to produce sometimes, when talking about the cost of renewables. No answer.

John Healey resigned as Secretary of State for Defence from Starmers Government, due to defense underfunding, to then cut £2 billion from front line military as Burnhams Chancellor of the Exchequer. telegraph.co.uk/politics/202…

Yet another big blow to our farmers & a risk for UK food supplies.The government is stupid.Net Zero must be abandoned.

Yesterday various reports into grid security and NESO governance around 23 June were published @neso_energy and @mgshanks immediately seized on the statement by Eversheds that its "investigation has not substantiated any of the allegations”. Shanks said there was "no evidence" to support the allegations which is plainly not what Eversheds said nor what the report contains At every turn, Eversheds took the most generous interpretation possible to NESO's benefit. Areas of concern were repeatedly identified and not followed up with rigour. A lack of evidence was taken as evidence to the contrary despite obvious limitations to the investigation process in terms of independence (Eversheds was appointed by NESO) and anonymity (some witnesses eg the Power System Manager would be easily identifiable to NESO staff and senior execs, potentially limiting what they would be willing to say) Eversheds identified that important logs were not kept in the week of 22 June, despite engineers having identified ahead of time that risks would be elevated. Yet they did not explore why, or check that the reports had not been either deleted or simply withheld from them They identified the possibility of mobile phones being used to pass on undue influence from the Corporate Affairs team but only checked the phone records of the PSM, not their line manager or other more senior people - yet elsewhere it mentions a manager coming to the control room when a demand control warning was being considered and when they left it was no longer being considered - a senior manager could speak by phone or in person to Corporate Affairs and pass on the concerns in person to the PSM - there is no evidence Eversheds considered this despite identifying the pieces of the puzzle Eversheds identified significant weaknesses in record-keeping, a culture of reputational sensitivity, concerns that staff were not listened to by senior management, and uncertainty about whether the correct operational escalation procedures had been followed on 23 June It also recorded that five network constraints had been breached with no available pre- or post-action mitigation options, with confusion about whether the largest loss was covered, and even what the impact of a single fault would have been NESO admitted in its interim report to Ofgem that 5 grid constraints were breached despite having strongly suggested to the press that they had not It also said that on 23 June it had taken “all available and commercially accessible” balancing actions while frequency remained significantly below its normal operating range despite automatic frequency response services responding to prevent further falls So what reserve was left, and why was it not deployed? If reserves were not available or commercially accessible then they would be useless – did NESO retain enough usable reserve to cover the largest loss or not? Anyone that thinks these reports exonerate NESO and that concerns over grid security can be dismissed is dreaming. The reports show there is no room for complacency. In my blog I list about 20 risks to grid security which ought to give readers an idea of the range of threats it faces The question is whether anything will be done about it. @ofgem still expects NESO to mark its own homework, something other regulators of safety critical systems do not do If the conclusion when the final reports come in is that the grid wasn't secure then there will be serious questions for both Ofgem and NESO to answer about the self-reporting process because the only reason the issues surrounding 23 June have been investigated at all was because @ClaireCoutinho stood up in Parliament TWICE and sounded the alarm (with due credit to the whistleblower who approached her in the first place) #EnergySecurity @Miatsf @AndrewBowie_MP @HarrietCross_MP @ColinMoynihanUK @drlukeevans @Ashley7Fox @TiceRichard @cmackinlay @DavidGHFrost @mattwridley @Iromg @AllisonPearson @MerrynSW @afneil @EdConwaySky @mattotele @Jonathan__Leake @CitySamuel @energygovuk watt-logic.com/2026/10/20/ne…

Here's the name of WEF board f Trustees. Recognize any ??

No. That's incorrect. The 1960- 90 baseline was over 16c as stated by NOAA in 1997. In 97 they claimed the warmest year on record at 16.82c approximately 0.4c above the global average. The baseline of 13.9c has been achieved by going back to a cooler period. Old baseline erased.

You should have dropped the net zero nonsense while you were in power.

Yet they want us all adopting heat pumps & EVs…Great until the blackouts happen.

Here's a snapshot of grid frequency over the past week - the operational limits have been breached in both directions over the week Both yesterday and today saw swings between exceeding the upper and lower limits within relatively short periods - today was the most dramatic with a jump above 50.2 Hz, a couple of short drops below 49.8 Hz and then a larger jump above 50.2 Hz in the space of 90 minutes Friday saw frequency below the operational limit for 9 continuous minutes falling to a low of 49.75 Hz, resolved with Emergency Assistance on the interconnectors while today saw 2.5 minutes above 50.2 Hz rising to a high of 50.278 Hz Also shown are interconnector flows and SO-SO trades with the times when the intraday limits were breached highlighted - yesterday NESO traded against the flow for 14 consecutive settlement periods (7 hours) with several hours at 2700 MW (vs limit of 1500 MW) Finally we can see the de-rated margin and loss of load probability for the past week. The margin was healthy at all times and the LOLP was always zero So, in a well supplied market, NESO has struggled to keep the frequency inside the operational limit and has breached intraday interconnector trading limits multiple times, and extensively yesterday Not shown here are the EA on Friday and the two large EAs on Monday of 500 MW and 1200 MW. Also not shown are the balancing costs - yesterday was close to £50m which is the highest day ever. Today is £23.44m so far - the daily average is £2.3m. September was a record month and October is on track to be worse This is not evidence of a system operating securely. It's evidence of a system that's being held together with expensive last-minute actions. Yes, the lights have stayed on, but conditions have been really benign. I'm not sure we can be confident of the same outcome when demand is higher later in winter Adding insult to injury we hear that NESO has spent £££ on PR to gaslight us into thinking the grid was operated securely over the summer despite several margin warnings and lots of trading breaches. This week it has again tried to make us believe EMNs and EAs are just ordinary everyday tools and not exceptional actions. The cost and frequency data tell a different story And at a time when consumers are really struggling with high energy bills, NESO should be doing everything it can to avoid spending so much on balancing and interconnector trading - expenditure which gets added to bills via network costs @Miatsf @mgshanks @AndrewBowie_MP @ClaireCoutinho @HarrietCross_MP @drlukeevans @Ashley7Fox @ColinMoynihanUK @TiceRichard @DavidGHFrost @mattwridley @cmackinlay @Iromg @AllisonPearson @MerrynSW @EdConwaySky @afneil @mattotele @Jonathan__Leake @CitySamuel @neso_energy @neso_energy @ofgem

Perhaps Martin Lewis on his money show next time he gets questioned why bills are going up again. That's my sarcasm for the day

It's getting embarrassing now... This morning @neso_energy has blown through the intraday interconnector trading limits again and like yesterday the frequency has been above and below the safe operational limits Margins are perfectly fine so I can only think this is a combination of poor modelling and forecasting and the grid constraints affecting the SE Yesterday saw record balancing costs of just under £50 million so this isn't just a curiosity, it's chaos that's driving bills higher (balancing costs are part of network costs) (images from Amira Technologies and LCP Enact) @Miatsf @mgshanks @AndrewBowie_MP @ClaireCoutinho @harrietc @ColinMoynihanUK @drlukeevans @ashley7fox @TiceRichard @cmackinlay @DavidGHFrost @mattwridley @Iromg @AllisonPearson @MerrynSW @EdConwaySky @afneil @mattotele @jonathan_leake @julietsamuel @energygovuk @ofgem

Shorter von der Leyen 'And I can make lots and lots and lots of new laws for Britain And there's absolutely nothing you suckers can do about it! I'm untouchable, unelected and unaccountable'

Germany lost Germany 20 years ago ..

Germany spent over $500 billion trying to become the green energy leader of the world. Today it has the highest electricity prices in the developed world. Its factories are shutting down. Its biggest companies are leaving. Its carbon emissions are the lowest in 70 years, not because of wind turbines but because the factories stopped running. Germany hit its climate targets by destroying its economy. This is the most expensive energy mistake in modern history.

And Britain is following very close behind Germany. Our climate ministers can congratulate each other that they led each other to national bankruptcy and global irrelevance. But there'll be precious few others joining them

So what has the world achieved for its 'investment' of $10,000,000,000,000? Show me!

We've spent over £200,000,000,000 on subsidies for making electricity. That's more than it takes to run the entire NHS for a whole year And we've achieved the highest electricity prices in the world. Its been a LOSE-LOSE policy. We pay twice over Why are we doing this to ourselves? subsidyclock.co.uk/

And at some point one must ask the question when…. TRILLIONS have been spent and yet SOLAR and WIND provide a whopping 3.3% OF GLOBAL ENERGY. 🤷‍♂️ And over $10 trillion has been invested in the global energy transition between 2014 and 2024 alone. Yet in 2025, solar contributed just 1.7% and wind 1.6% of total global energy supply. Combined: 3.3%!! Meanwhile, fossil fuels still supply approximately 86% of the world’s energy. If this were a private business investment, shareholders would be asking some very serious questions. Where has all the money gone? Where are the promised savings? Where is the displacement of fossil fuels? And why are consumers still paying subsidies, carbon taxes and higher system costs? The investment industry measures success in capital deployed. Consumers should measure it in affordable, reliable energy delivered. So why don’t we: Follow the money. Ask who profits from the transition, who carries the financial risk, and who ultimately pays? You’ll find like I did it’s the ordinary tax payer.

To precis. The more wind and solar you have in a grid the less resilient and stable it becomes. And there's very little we can do about it. The entire solar-heavy Iberian grid (Spain and Portugal) collapsed in just 27 seconds from the first trouble. And both countries went dark.