Kevin Wallace

Ordinary guy. Ex aircraft engineer. Ex cabin crew. Proud to be British.

[Kevin Wallace @kevwallace2000]

@KathrynPorter26 I guess we are heading for a blackout. Will anything change if that happens?

[Kathryn Porter @KathrynPorter26]

Here we go again...

Another margin warning for the GB grid for tomorrow. Low wind and hot weather along with reduced imports from Europe leading to tight margins on the GB system

1200 MW shortfall projected from 18:30 to 22:30

Update expected at 9:30am tomorrow

This is now the THIRD day of tight margin warnings this summer (plus 23 June when there should have been one but wasn't)

Before this year there had never been a summer margin warning

So why now? Because our reliance on both wind and imports is growing. Then when it's not windy we're in trouble, particularly if it's also not windy in Europe where most countries we're connected with also rely on wind. They don't have the spare electricity themselves to sell to us

This is only going to get worse. Although the temperatures we're seeing now are unusual, the actual weather isn't

High pressure weather systems with lots of sun but little wind are common both in summer when they cause high temperatures and winter when they bring the coldest temperatures

Clearly we're struggling to manage

Reliance on wind is not energy security
Reliance on imports is not energy security

We need sensible energy policies and to stop gambling on the weather and praying other countries can bail us out

@neso_energy @Ed_Miliband @ClaireCoutinho @AndrewBowie_MP @griffitha @NJ_Timothy @DavidGHFrost @TiceRichard @mattwridley @cmackinlay @Iromg @AllisonPearson @MerrynSW @EdConwaySky @mattotele @jonathan_leake @afneil @ofgem

[Kevin Wallace @kevwallace2000]

@YesterdaysBrit1 Same 😂

[Kevin Wallace @kevwallace2000]

@christopherhope Cleverly on Talk today saying they back elections but can't guarantee conservative led councils will not postpone elections. Same old uni party bollocks

[Christopher Hope📝 @christopherhope]

NEW
Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch will NOT over-rule her own local councils which refuse to hold elections next year.
Nine of the 63 councils - which have to tell the Government if they want to delay their May elections by Jan 15 - are Tory controlled.
Yet yesterday Conservative shadow Local Government secretary Sir James Cleverly said: "The Conservative position is clear, these elections should go ahead."
Yet today two of the nine - East Sussex and West Sussex - have said they want to delay their local elections by a year to May 2027.
But a Conservative spokesman has just told me Mrs Badenoch will not order her councils to go ahead with elections if they do not want to.
The spokesman said: "Kemi is the Conservative Party leader, but she respects local Conservative Council leaders. She has been clear that she wants the local elections to go ahead, but it is ultimately a decision for local Council leaders." More now on @GBNEWS.

[Kevin Wallace @kevwallace2000]

@wideawake_media Nah.. we all do not agree. Most of us disagree. You just shout it out from your platform and tell us how you want it to be. What it is.. is not what you want

[Wide Awake Media @wideawake_media]

EU chief Ursula von der Leyen: "We all agree that climate change is real, man-made, and it is for all of us to tackle it."

"The threat of climate change is existential." 🤡

[Kevin Wallace @kevwallace2000]

@JamesMelville James is absolutely bang on

[Kevin Wallace @kevwallace2000]

@YesterdaysBrit1 Outstanding

[Kevin Wallace @kevwallace2000]

@SBarrettBar Spot on

[Kevin Wallace @kevwallace2000]

@SBarrettBar The hidey hole will eventually fill up so full it will leak a little bit and perhaps explode.. it's a matter of time

[Kevin Wallace @kevwallace2000]

@LeilaniDowding I never knew about it.. it's as if nobody wants us to know?

[Kevin Wallace @kevwallace2000]

@daveatherton @DrChrisParry If they weren't scared they wouldn't comment

[Kevin Wallace @kevwallace2000]

@almostoneword @julianHjessop @Keir_Starmer £2 to £3 is 50% higher.. that's it.. higher by 50%. 1.5 times the current cap. It's a lot more than it was.

[Kevin Wallace @kevwallace2000]

@RWTaylors The people spoke

[Kevin Wallace @kevwallace2000]

@LizKershawDJ Word salad. Deflection.

[Kevin Wallace @kevwallace2000]

@KemiBadenoch It's time for action not conversation

[Kevin Wallace @kevwallace2000]

@MartinDaubney I agree but if C of E can afford reparations they can can afford to repair churches can they not?

https://t.co/yNRn0O14B2

[Kevin Wallace @kevwallace2000]

@UKLabour With posts like this Labour are digging as hole to bury themselves in

[Kevin Wallace @kevwallace2000]

@danny__kruger Excellent speech