Presumably because they hiked the price of it so much none of us can afford to use any so there’s some left over to sell XD
Then cut the fucking bills and stop panicking people with threats of blackouts.
Caused by insufficient liquefied natural gas port capacity in the continent and French nuclear outages.
Why are we exporting if we’re needing it?? Aren’t the electric bills still absurdly high??
Edit: thanks for your answers guys; I don’t even remotely understand how energy production / consumption works; what I’m deducing from your answers here is that there’s an increased demand but the capacity for energy storage hasn’t increased so we’re still getting fucked by the high bills but that electricity that cannot be stored is being sold.
Fucking cunts. And here’s me sitting in the dark most of the day and paying 3 quid a day for the privilege.
Shhh don’t tell everyone here that Europe has a food and energy crisis too and that in the UK it’s not just all down to Brexit and Tories.
Being absolutely robbed by companies making record profits while people are paying extortionate prices.
With very little consumption my bill is £7-10 a day.
This is good. Well done Little Blighty, helping our neighbours during the difficult times. We’re the best.
Why didn’t we invest in tidal instead, you know exactly when you going to generate electricity
In fairness, the title _does_ say “for the first time in 44 years.” Granted, the last decade only averaged 5% import, according to the article, so not major.
The French nuke fleet is now mostly back online. At this moment the UK is now importing about 6GW from the continental interconnectors, more than is currently being generated by the UK nukes.
The people we are using who seem unable to build our new nuclear plants on time are apparently also unable to keep their plants at home up and running, hence the exporting. Please remind me why the government chose EDF again?
Key point:
> So what happened?
>Over the past year, French nuclear power stations had many maintenance problems which led to significant reductions in their output. In August, 57% of the country’s generation capacity was not being used. Despite a modest recovery, as of January 2023, 15 of its 56 reactors were closed for repairs. All this meant nuclear-reliant France had to import electricity from neighbouring countries.
>This led to more electricity being generated in Britain than would otherwise have been the case, to satisfy the additional demand from France. So while Britain’s renewable generation was at a record level, its fossil fuel generation was also higher than in the previous year. Without the problems in France, 2022 could have been the first year that Britain’s wind, solar and hydro combined generated more electricity than its fossil fuels – a milestone that will happen anyway over the next couple of years.
We work for EDF to produce this energy with British workers on British land and export it. We then buy it back at a hugely inflated price.
Make it make sense. Thatcher was a moron.
Can we have some of that at an inexpensive price then please?
Two cheers for that fuckload of wind turbines we have!
I bet they’re not paying what we do.
I pay 33.4p per kwh here but at my house in Slovakia I pay just 10.5p per kwh
I’m here to see the explanation of why we pay so much if we are exporters..
How can this be while the English are allowing energy companies to bend us as over with any price they want while threatening blackouts.
I thought there was gonna be blackouts from shortages
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Presumably because they hiked the price of it so much none of us can afford to use any so there’s some left over to sell XD
Then cut the fucking bills and stop panicking people with threats of blackouts.
Caused by insufficient liquefied natural gas port capacity in the continent and French nuclear outages.
Why are we exporting if we’re needing it?? Aren’t the electric bills still absurdly high??
Edit: thanks for your answers guys; I don’t even remotely understand how energy production / consumption works; what I’m deducing from your answers here is that there’s an increased demand but the capacity for energy storage hasn’t increased so we’re still getting fucked by the high bills but that electricity that cannot be stored is being sold.
Fucking cunts. And here’s me sitting in the dark most of the day and paying 3 quid a day for the privilege.
Shhh don’t tell everyone here that Europe has a food and energy crisis too and that in the UK it’s not just all down to Brexit and Tories.
Being absolutely robbed by companies making record profits while people are paying extortionate prices.
With very little consumption my bill is £7-10 a day.
This is good. Well done Little Blighty, helping our neighbours during the difficult times. We’re the best.
Why didn’t we invest in tidal instead, you know exactly when you going to generate electricity
In fairness, the title _does_ say “for the first time in 44 years.” Granted, the last decade only averaged 5% import, according to the article, so not major.
The French nuke fleet is now mostly back online. At this moment the UK is now importing about 6GW from the continental interconnectors, more than is currently being generated by the UK nukes.
This article is weeks out of date.
https://gridwatch.co.uk/
https://www.latribune.fr/entreprises-finance/industrie/energie-environnement/la-france-est-de-nouveau-exportatrice-d-electricite-depuis-le-1er-janvier-947480.html#:~:text=La%20France%20est%20redevenue%20exportatrice,importatrice%20pendant%20quasiment%20tout%202022.
The people we are using who seem unable to build our new nuclear plants on time are apparently also unable to keep their plants at home up and running, hence the exporting. Please remind me why the government chose EDF again?
Key point:
> So what happened?
>Over the past year, French nuclear power stations had many maintenance problems which led to significant reductions in their output. In August, 57% of the country’s generation capacity was not being used. Despite a modest recovery, as of January 2023, 15 of its 56 reactors were closed for repairs. All this meant nuclear-reliant France had to import electricity from neighbouring countries.
>This led to more electricity being generated in Britain than would otherwise have been the case, to satisfy the additional demand from France. So while Britain’s renewable generation was at a record level, its fossil fuel generation was also higher than in the previous year. Without the problems in France, 2022 could have been the first year that Britain’s wind, solar and hydro combined generated more electricity than its fossil fuels – a milestone that will happen anyway over the next couple of years.
We work for EDF to produce this energy with British workers on British land and export it. We then buy it back at a hugely inflated price.
Make it make sense. Thatcher was a moron.
Can we have some of that at an inexpensive price then please?
Two cheers for that fuckload of wind turbines we have!
I bet they’re not paying what we do.
I pay 33.4p per kwh here but at my house in Slovakia I pay just 10.5p per kwh
I’m here to see the explanation of why we pay so much if we are exporters..
How can this be while the English are allowing energy companies to bend us as over with any price they want while threatening blackouts.
I thought there was gonna be blackouts from shortages