The strong arms of the union give us expensive energy in the north where so much generation occurs and cheaper electricity down south where it’s consumed the most.
Lovely jubbly.
Get rid of standing charges, that would be a considerable reduction every month
Would be beneficial to Scotland, so that will never happen, we must be crushed.
Not a chance. We’ll always pay the most as it is set up that way.
The noise England would make about the junky jocks paying less than them would be deafening.
This graphic from the Guardian article was interesting:
There’s still a lot of work needed in infrastructure, to balance production and demand, because stuff like high pressure weather systems causing low wind, can drop wind power output significantly over a huge area.
Storage is still a difficult problem.
To play devil’s advocate for a moment and counter this argument.
The flip side of this proposed model is that future investment in renewable projects will obviously move from Scotland to England.
I think the challenge here is, what if it forces average prices up? Octopus just wash their hands.
One size never fits all, and those who live in remote areas could see them paying more.
There needs to be a proper independent study before we leap.
We need zonal prices and a complete removal of standing charges, as well as an independent regulatory body to ensure power companies are not charging over the odds for power.
Once my contract with British Gas ends I’ll be switching to octopus.
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The strong arms of the union give us expensive energy in the north where so much generation occurs and cheaper electricity down south where it’s consumed the most.
Lovely jubbly.
Get rid of standing charges, that would be a considerable reduction every month
Would be beneficial to Scotland, so that will never happen, we must be crushed.
Not a chance. We’ll always pay the most as it is set up that way.
The noise England would make about the junky jocks paying less than them would be deafening.
This graphic from the Guardian article was interesting:
https://preview.redd.it/z8syvfqxeuue1.png?width=641&format=png&auto=webp&s=ffb68ed78e48e503630679f6ee78218421226ef7
Thing is though… look at the “North Scotland” area. There’s *a lot* of renewable capacity there, but… earlier this year, the weather conditions were so calm that the wind power output was very low. Have a look at [this thread](https://www.reddit.com/r/Scotland/comments/1jfvd05/wednesday_200325_carbon_intensity/) for some other figures.
There’s still a lot of work needed in infrastructure, to balance production and demand, because stuff like high pressure weather systems causing low wind, can drop wind power output significantly over a huge area.
Storage is still a difficult problem.
To play devil’s advocate for a moment and counter this argument.
The flip side of this proposed model is that future investment in renewable projects will obviously move from Scotland to England.
I think the challenge here is, what if it forces average prices up? Octopus just wash their hands.
One size never fits all, and those who live in remote areas could see them paying more.
There needs to be a proper independent study before we leap.
We need zonal prices and a complete removal of standing charges, as well as an independent regulatory body to ensure power companies are not charging over the odds for power.
Once my contract with British Gas ends I’ll be switching to octopus.
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