[mattylondon]

Originally Posted by Delboy

As for the grid not being able to keep up, I think there must be surplus capacity during the night to charge batteries, think how much juice is needed to power all the cookers and kettles at dinner time across the country, that said though expansion would be needed to keep up as more cars went electric.

Where you get that power from bothers me, I don't think nuclear is the answer, far too risky and how do you deal with the waste.

The tidal generation projects make sense to me, it's reliable and reasonably clean.

The Geek in me loves this web site, http://www.gridwatch.templar.co.uk/
It shows the current status of the National Grid and generation. Currently as I write it looks like we're at 65% capacity. I've seen it up past 55 GW on the coldest of winter days.