Mike Wilcox 🔶🇺🇦🇪🇺🇬🇧

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[Simon Evans @DrSimEvans]

FACTCHECK: UK Conservatives double the ‘cost of net-zero’ after spreadsheet blunder

The Tory "Right Way" booklet makes an erroneous claim about the cost of cutting emissions, possibly taken from a Jan26 thinktank report, and deffo the most idiotic error I've seen for a while 🧵

[Mike Wilcox 🔶🇺🇦🇪🇺🇬🇧 @MikeWilcoxIT]

@jac61941964 @DrSimEvans It is worse than that, given how long these projects take to complete...

Everything that completes this year was a Tory approved project. There will be projects going live in 4-5 years that were approved by the Tories.

They're campaigning to stop their own projects

[Mike Wilcox 🔶🇺🇦🇪🇺🇬🇧 @MikeWilcoxIT]

@kaya85kaya @robhawkes Now with an ASHP, we could nudge up the target temperature, and/or increase the flow temperature.

[Mike Wilcox 🔶🇺🇦🇪🇺🇬🇧 @MikeWilcoxIT]

@kaya85kaya @robhawkes I essentially did this during the Russian gas crisis, when gas prices were higher than overnight electricity on the time-of-use tariff we were on...

Rather than a single powerful fan-heater, we used a couple of small oil-filled radiators and a small infra-red panel, total ~ 1kW.

[Mike Wilcox 🔶🇺🇦🇪🇺🇬🇧 @MikeWilcoxIT]

@MindlessSelfIn @cremieuxrecueil Think bigger...

There's a study of NW Europe that shows the dunkelflaute effect tends to correlate across no more than 3 countries at a time.

The better solution for that is to have a grid larger than the weather system. Interconnectors spanning Europe and the North Sea

[Honest Alder (not dishonest crank Alder) @Tw_timerAlder]

Tories overstate cost of net zero by £500 billion pounds.

This seems to be a common theme amongst the right who want to make net zero look too expensive to achieve.

Their incompetence or lies though are rarely corrected and just fodder for cranks.

https://t.co/mrtIFDnfMz

[Mike Wilcox 🔶🇺🇦🇪🇺🇬🇧 @MikeWilcoxIT]

@Tw_timerAlder At the moment, Yorkshire and the Humber is the first spoiler - always a grade less green than places further north & west.

I'm looking forward to that changing as we get more of Dogger Bank commissioned, and EGL2 starts operations

[Mike Wilcox 🔶🇺🇦🇪🇺🇬🇧 @MikeWilcoxIT]

@robhawkes @BucktonMel91596 Ta. Just found this earlier post, which would be odd if there was a plant in the UK...

https://t.co/KTIPZL6HWK

[Robin Hawkes @robhawkes]

Here's what 4 years of blade deliveries supporting some of the world's largest offshore wind projects look like…

I’ve been looking at the logistics behind the offshore wind supply chain, and put together this animation showing the movement of wind turbine blades from LM Wind Power’s factory in Fujian, China, to the UK between 2022 and 2026.

At 107 metres long, these blades are enormous components. They’re shipped in batches of 6–12 at a time, secured in purpose-built transport frames to be sent thousands of miles by sea. At first they arrive in Able Seaton on Teesside, and then later switching to the Port of Nigg in Scotland.

What I found most interesting were the patterns that emerge in the logistics when the voyages are mapped over time. Ships initially took the shorter route through the Suez Canal, but from 2024 they instead travelled all the way around the southern tip of Africa, adding roughly two weeks to the journey.

There are also long pauses followed by intense bursts of activity, revealing the scale and rhythm of the supply chain supporting the construction of some of the largest offshore wind projects in the world.

The video covers almost four years of blade deliveries, from December 2022 through to September 2026.

I’m planning to dig further into this side of offshore wind: the ports, vessels, component movements, and the other largely invisible but critical supply chains behind construction at this scale.

[Mike Wilcox 🔶🇺🇦🇪🇺🇬🇧 @MikeWilcoxIT]

@BucktonMel91596 @robhawkes Teeside.

No Chinese turbines here.

https://t.co/kGNefGQygA

[Mike Wilcox 🔶🇺🇦🇪🇺🇬🇧 @MikeWilcoxIT]

@itsdbtalks @Ministryofmess Swaptopus seems to be their next brand that relates to this.

Gonna have to get public charging cheaper though. Depot charging seems more promising for now

https://t.co/B35KP7CPbX

[Mike Wilcox 🔶🇺🇦🇪🇺🇬🇧 @MikeWilcoxIT]

@latimeralder Interesting strawman. But strawman nonetheless.

Those renewables fans who do forward thinking have been talking electrification for a while now

https://t.co/vPddkbVHj4

[Mike Wilcox 🔶🇺🇦🇪🇺🇬🇧 @MikeWilcoxIT]

@Skidwyn @renewablesmiffy Currently on 6.9p overnight, 28.5p daytime, IOG.

The latter doesn't matter, because the battery either captures free solar or 7p overnight.

1.9p per mile. 2p if we give the EVs a share of the extra standing charge.

[Mike Wilcox 🔶🇺🇦🇪🇺🇬🇧 @MikeWilcoxIT]

@renewablesmiffy But grid-scale, on the north-west tip of Europe, I think the answer is going to be a mix of everything - but Solar/Battery is still going to get cheaper - which tips the scales more and more.

[Mike Wilcox 🔶🇺🇦🇪🇺🇬🇧 @MikeWilcoxIT]

@renewablesmiffy "Too cheap to meter".

I wonder which technology will ever get closest?

If you are like Africa, closer to the equator and more vague on the requirements to firm, then Solar wins hands down. Batteries just make the case stronger.

Same for a simple residential property here.

[Mike Wilcox 🔶🇺🇦🇪🇺🇬🇧 @MikeWilcoxIT]

@Beezus37644877 @Sam_Dumitriu That might happen this autumn, with an extra year of solar installs, and an extra 4GW of offshore wind due to commission this year.

My guess would be at Christmas.

[Mike Wilcox 🔶🇺🇦🇪🇺🇬🇧 @MikeWilcoxIT]

@Beezus37644877 @Sam_Dumitriu There are moments today when renewables generate more than 100% of demand, but gas is still turned on for other reasons.

NESO have been planning for 7 years to operate without fossils, and aimed to be able to do so for at least one 30 minute slot last autumn.

[Mike Wilcox 🔶🇺🇦🇪🇺🇬🇧 @MikeWilcoxIT]

@Will52773T @ecokonnexion Terminology.

Are hydrocarbons used as feedstock, called a fuel?

For me, the clear answer is no. Used as fuel, they are burnt for energy. Used as feedstock, they are not.

[Mike Wilcox 🔶🇺🇦🇪🇺🇬🇧 @MikeWilcoxIT]

@benright444 @NicDenso @AndrewBowie_MP @grok But we do have LNG terminals for import too. That makes a share of gas here more expensive.

In 2023, when Russia cut off gas to Europe, we ended up importing extra LNG, feeding it into the GB gas network, then exporting it to Europe through Norfolk.

[Mike Wilcox 🔶🇺🇦🇪🇺🇬🇧 @MikeWilcoxIT]

@benright444 @NicDenso @AndrewBowie_MP @grok Gas has a subtle difference because ship transport is harder. Currently most of our gas is UK or Norwegian. Some LNG.

The market for gas is more regional, and both us and Norway have pipes to Europe ... so gas in the UK is mostly priced to match Dutch prices.