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How Close Were We To Blackouts Yesterday?
January 9, 2025
By Paul Homewood
We came perilously close to rolling blackouts yesterday, something which I have not seen reported in the media –(correct me, I may be wrong!!).
The ever alert Kathryn Porter has the full story: Blackouts near miss in tightest day in GB electricity market since 2011
This is her conclusion:
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Why did we get into this awful mess?
It does not take a genius to work out why? We shut down more than 20 GW of reliable coal capacity, and thought we could replace it with medieval technology that only works when the wind blows!
https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2025/01/09/how-close-were-we-to-blackouts-yesterday/#more-85168
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I live in Washington State where hydro is the “Big Kahuna” of our electrical supply. There are plenty of generators on tall towers and the region sends electricity south to California. (See: Pacific DC intertie)
This week the generator blades mostly have been still. I follow the action at the link below. Wind is the green line at the bottom.
https://transmission.bpa.gov/Business/Operations/Wind/baltwg.aspx
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70 companies which make a living from censorship are very upset at free speech with Facebook.
It’s ironic that ‘free’ speech will finally be free, cheaper and not funding a whole ecosystem making their entire living from censoring, sorry ‘fact checking’ others. And AI is a special case as it should fact check itself.
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TdeF you’ve got an extra http:// in your link and it won’t click through.
Here’s a working link.
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