Whats amused you (in the news) today ?

Take a look at this then

Yes I read that the other day. Just mind boggling. Or rather it isn't mind boggling at all: opportunists and total s***s with no scruples are everywhere and will latch on to anything which can give them a payback

That's not the only alternative, y'know.

The UK has massively decarbonised electricity over the last couple of decades. We've gone from a peak of nearly 400TWh/year consumption to about 300TWh thanks to energy efficiency, while fossil has gone from three quarters of the total to just one-third, a two-thirds fall in the total from 300TWh to 100TWh - the lowest since the 1950s, when the area I live in wasn't even connected to the grid...

Total UK fossil energy consumption has gone down from a peak of 240M tonnes of oil equivalent to 165.

We can do better still, with relatively little effort.
With a little bit of effort, and no real sacrifices to standard of living, we could probably do a LOT better.

People say "But what about China?" - China have reduced their CO2 emissions per kWh of electricity from a peak of nearly 800g to 580. Could try a lot harder, but installing more than twice as much wind and solar as the rest of the world combined... globalenergymonitor.org/report/china-continues-to-lead-the-world-in-wind-and-solar-with-twice-as-much-capacity-under-construction-as-the-rest-of-the-world-combined/
Which, in large part, is because of the other issue - China's consumption is growing rapidly, as their economy matures and the rural areas start to gain access to the modern world.

The big problem isn't necessarily China - it's places like Australia, who've reduced - but only from 800 to 590, because they LOVE coal, despite having huge amounts of sun and huge areas for solar panels...  Or India, the world's biggest population and 710g.
Or the US, 50% higher than the UK - 370 vs 240 - again, because of a huge coal lobby.

France is 56, btw. And that regional oil-wealth superpower Norway? 30.

ourworldindata.org/grapher/carbon-intensity-electricity

What I find most remarkable about that is that the UK's reduced electricity consumption by a quarter whilst simultaneously reaching 24% of newly registered vehicles being plug-in electric (16.5% BEV, 7.5% PHEV) at the end of last year... 4% of the total so far, about 2m of 48m.

Shows the "But the grid won't cope" scaremongerers up, doesn't it?

Everybody except the National Grid. But what would they know?

www.nationalgrid.com/stories/journey-to-net-zero-stories/can-grid-cope-extra-demand-electric-cars


Peak was mid-late 2000s.

A statement you have made several times. Except that is not Grid's position. If it was, they wouldn't be spending £19bn investment in grid infrastructure through to fiscal 25-26. And £30bn between 25-29. Nor have a program they refer to as "the Great Grid Upgrade", touted by them as "largest overhaul of the electricity grid in generations".