How not to endear yourself to the locals

And, going back to this bit... The proposed farm is 48MW, "24,000 homes".
Are there fewer than 12,000 homes in the area? No. There's 30,000 households in Blaenau Gwent alone.
So those 8 turbines don't even meet the local need, let alone fall foul of that 200% test.

But, of course, you're more than welcome to have that gas generation instead.

I presume you're familiar with Gridwatch?

gridwatch.co.uk/

Average total national demand is a tidge under 30GW, peaking around low 30s.

Wind is currently about 16% of that, slightly more than nuclear, about the same as the international interconnects are currently supplying.
Gas is still the bulk - just under 40%, about the same as the total of carbon-neutral.
Nuclear is counted towards carbon-neutral, but obvs not towards renewables. Biomass is renewable, but not carbon-neutral. Wind, hydro, solar are both.

Of course, keitha probably fondly remembers the days when his area was responsible for producing FAR more than 200% of the region's energy supply... (Coal is down to about 1% now. Thankfully.)

This gives a bunch of breakdowns as to the average household's electricity use...
www.ovoenergy.com/guides/energy-guides/how-much-electricity-does-a-home-use.html

We live in a rural area and did buy a 4k electric car - a 2013 Renault Kangoo ex- French Post office. The range of these first generation cars is a poxy 60 miles at best. But our average trip is about 10 miles and accounts for 99.9 % of journeys, so I sold the petrol car.

When we want to go long distance, it's a matter of booking one of the three cars locally that are offered by the owners in a car sharing scheme, the tiny Citroen, the Renault Magane or the big Volvo. I've been to Holland in the Citroen, Germany in the Megane and moved an art deco door I bought in the Volvo. That's a simple phone-app scheme and the owners are all nice. The electric Kangoo is guilt free fantastic to drive and costs nothing in maintenance. Solar panels take car of charging. 

yep the wood burner is a pain, but someone has to burn the wood the Mens Sheds people scatter through the Maker Space and my own trees just shedding branches.

There is already a chunky solar farm covering part of the area, but i wasn't just talking about this farm apparently others are proposed in BG

Fortunately, the International Maritime Organisation definitely do give a toss.

www.imo.org/en/MediaCentre/HotTopics/Pages/Reducing-greenhouse-gas-emissions-from-ships.aspx

40% reduction in greenhouse gases from container shipping by 2030, relative to 2008, working to 70% by 2050.

Biofuels (from waste cooking oil) are already being trialled by shipping lines.

www.maritime-executive.com/article/additional-shipping-lines-successfully-tested-biofuel-alternative

That's not anti-EV, it'as anti-LEZ and anti-car taxes in general.

Gilets Jaunes, effectively.

Except Le Pen is currently being handed her backside on a plate.
Supply's down, demand's going back up after the pandemic, transport is still chaotic...

www.reuters.com/business/energy/us-shale-restraint-pushes-oil-prices-multi-year-high-kemp-2021-06-04/

But shale prices started to rise last year.

www.spglobal.com/marketintelligence/en/news-insights/latest-news-headlines/shale-gas-stocks-boomed-in-2020-as-oil-got-crushed-2021-outlook-is-positive-61915268
No, not quite.

All are agreed to stop funding new coal.

www.reuters.com/business/environment/g7-agrees-end-new-govt-support-coal-power-by-end-2021-2021-06-13/

The US agree coal has to go, but don't want to put a date on the end, because post-Trump mid-America coal-belt...

Japan's big issue is that they got terrified of nuclear post-Fukushima. Their use of coal didn't rise much, but they don't have much slack to remove it.




China's main issue is rocketing demand, the UK's is falling.

So let's do NOTHING!


'course, the newly-standalone UK is pretty much an irrelevance in global terms.

yearbook.enerdata.net/electricity/electricity-domestic-consumption-data.html

Total global electricity consumption in 2019 - 23,000TWh.
Asia - 10,700TWh (and almost all of the year-on-year growth)
China - 6,500TWh
US - 3,860TWh
European continent - 3,350TWh
UK - 303TWh

Our opinion is predictably unimportant, but that doesn't give us carte blanche to sit around with our thumbs up our chuffs. Not unless we want to totally squander what little influence we have left.