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I sent in two submissions to the SSES Governance Consultation. They'd overlooked a number of technical issues which had been raised during the previ...
That's unlikely. The usual procedure is for a company to obtain planning permission first.Only then will the DNO or NGET be prepared to open a file ...
Whilst agreeing that we need to place storage batteries in the home, your suggested control mechanism is unaffordable and decreases grid resilience. ...
@mairie - Your constituency member, Dr Zubir Ahmed MP, is a surgeon who also has an MBA. He is Under-Secretary of State in the Dept of Health, with ...
1: I can't see how adding BESS sites like this can result in a fall in electricity prices. A 49.9MW storage site is basically a cash cow.The owners ...
The 2020 planning application is not the same as the one being discussed by the Council in 2025. The earlier proposal was at least five times larger...
It would be better to say "70GW of deliverable capacity" Assuming that there's no load shedding, the actual Demand peak in winter is about half of t...
Can I point the discussion to a transcript of Oral Evidence to the Commons Select Committee on ESNZ on 31st January 2025. One of the three witnesses...
As I read it, the protests were about the requirement for lots of new 400kV transmission towers to transfer the electricity to London. Those protest...
I echo those comments from @jamespa The media seems to report on what is currently happening, particularly when something hasn't worked out as hoped...
Erm... obtaining planning consent is rarely a problem for applications which are energy-based. Existing Planning Regulations are inadequate to addre...
Ian Rippin, CEO of MCS, gave oral evidence to the Select Committee on Energy in Feb'25,for which the transcript of oral evidence is available here.The...
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