Not sure who this green lobby are, but the CCC have us using gas to deal with intermittency into to the 2050s. I don't think that will be needed - that UK currently has 70GW of battery capacity … (View Post)

Even the rubbish EV I was driving over the summer was really fun. It's the lack of noise and the smoothness that catches you out. In very remote areas you tend to have range anxiety anyway, so t… (View Post)

Correct. We have about 3GW of potential output from hydro at the moment, storage of 24GWh. I think total storage (battery and hydro) in development is about 200GWh. (View Post)

I should've clarified about the 16GW consumption - that's all energy consumption, including that from gas boilers, ICE cars and ferries. (View Post)

Scotland currently has 50GW of renewable capacity in development, including 24GW of pumped hydro and battery which helps with intermittency. That's in addition to our 15GW of current capacity. G… (View Post)