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Originally Posted by Arragonis
So even if windmills don't make any energy they still get paid - from energy bills. And when they need backup, which is idling and uses energy to do so - those will also be subsidised from energy bills.
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Sure, just as the people who build peaker plants & backup equipment get paid, even though their equipment may not be used very often. That's just a consequence of the mechanism of electric grids as they're currently implemented: there is not much storage out there.
It would seem that the sensible solution, long term, would be to quit whining about the nasty politicians forcing you to (gasp!) actually have clean air and such, and get off your butts and add some storage to the system.
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If we do see some blackouts or maybe some brownouts and people begin to realise that we have just closed our coal plants due to the CCA...
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So how is that different from getting brownouts/blackouts because you can no longer afford to buy & import coal? Or because your coal-miners union has just gone on strike again?
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To reduce electricity consumption, and thus conserve coal stocks, a series of measures were announced on 13 December 1973 by Heath, including the "Three-Day Work Order", more commonly known as the Three-Day Week, which was to come into force at midnight on 31 December. Commercial consumption of electricity would be limited to three consecutive days each week.
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