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MattEngineer · 2021-12-03T18:39:26Z

When the energy cap comes up for renewal I think it will rise to 26.5p per unit, any thoughts of the collective?

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19/10/2025 5:13 pm

Posted by: @batpred

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So many reasons to have data centers as far north as possible

@batpred - please share your sources with us when making such observations !

I'll suggest that the best location for data centres in UK is where there is not only surplus electricity generation,
but also plenty of data. 😀

Have a look at these two maps:

The first shows the submarine data cables landing-points.
25% of global internet traffic passes through Bude in NE Cornwall

The second map shows the location of Alverdiscott, which is the most over-saturated Grid Supply Point in England,
and Pyworthy BSP, which has the greatest capacity constraints on the 132kV (top) level of the Distribution grid.

Both of these locations are in the high-rainfall zone, where the SW prevailing wind off the Atlantic meets
the rising ground of Dartmoor and Exmoor.

There's loads of 'free' water for cooling!

This is a situation when NESO and the Regional Energy Strategic Plan (RESP) organisation for the area should be making the decisions...
... rather than the Chancellor of the Exchequer!

To embrace technological advancement, UK PLC needs to evaluate its assets in scientific measurements (Joules and Terabytes)
not Pounds Sterling.

Save energy... recycle electrons!

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19/10/2025 5:27 pm

@transparent I have a very small part of <0.001% of the Derril Water Solar Park at Pyworthy - I would rather that the CotE was not managing any aspects of the future implementation of the energy produced there.😟 Toodles.

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19/10/2025 7:48 pm

Derril Water is a particular problem because it connects to the 33kV level at Pyworthy Bulk Supply Point (BSP),
along with the other seven solar parks which have spawned around transmission tower 81K138 on the 132kV double circuit.

The 400kV Transmission grid used to run down to Indian Queens near Truro and supplied all of Cornwall.

Of course, most of the flow is now in the other direction due to the quantity of wind & solar generation in Kernow.

The 132kV runs parallel to the Transmission Grid, and was intended to act as the fall-back.
In the event of an outage on the 400kV run, or for maintenance work, its double-circuit would allow Cornwall and the western half of Devon to still receive electricity.

Pyworthy BSP was the main connection point for all the NW quarter of Devon.
From there the 33kV overhead wires supplied the Primary substations in the rural market towns.

Unfortunately, Pyworthy has become a magnet for all the "let's make some dosh" part of the commercial solar sector.

I've shown only half of the Derril Water solar farm in the map above.
The rest of it is just off the map to the west.

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I would rather that the CotE was not managing any aspects of the future implementation of the energy produced there.

Are we referring to the Committee on the Environment?
or Children on the Edge?

What's the problem I'm not seeing?

I was suggesting that the right people to sort out the over-supply of electricity at Pyworthy would be the RESP for SW England.

The surrounding countryside is sparsely populated by humans, but there is a major wildlife re-introduction centre in the area.
For obvious reasons I'm not stating its exact location here,
but we are starting to see wildlife becoming re-established which have not been native in England for over a century.

Placing hundreds of acres of solar panels across these hills, only to then discard a high proportion of that generation is
an environmental travesty.

Save energy... recycle electrons!

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