UK Government Policy Causing Energy Insecurity.

The government have the ideology or rhetoric that renewables are the answer to fuel insecurity. The idea being that if we can generate all our energy from wind and solar, we won't be beholden to the world energy market.

But that's not true is it?

For every single watt of renewable energy capacity that is created, so an identical watt of fossil fueled generation has to be installed as well. That's because every watt of renewable energy has to have a reliable back-up for when the wind doesn't blow and the sun doesn't shine. 

Energy demand doesn't suddenly stop when the renewables can't deliver. There has to be something else available top fill the void, otherwise the lights go out and people freeze to death in winter.

That back-up generation is now predominantly gas-powered. That's why renewable energy is linked to the spot price for gas. 

Because essentially the system is gas-powered and we pay the gas-powered price for the energy, from which the energy providers make a profit. However, if the conditions are right, we switch to renewables.

Now, if we are gas-powered, you'd think the government, in order to stabilise the price of energy would look to bring the production of gas into the country's borders, reducing the reliance on foreign supplied gas. 

But no, the UK government is shutting down gas production from the UK-owned  gas and oil fields, and instead we are taking gas from the Norwegian-owned North Sea gas and oil fields. Let me state that again. We are paying the Norwegians money for oil and gas we could be extracting ourselves. 

It's most likely actually the same oil and gas we could be extracting, because we do have shared gas fields with the Norwegians. So they are extracting our gas for us and charging us for the privilege. 

So no matter what the Government say about renewables, not matter how much of our energy is generated by renewables, in contrast to what the government say, we will still be hostage to world gas spot prices. 

To get away from world spot price, we need reliable non-gas powered baseload. Nuclear would be a good basis for baseload. But the UK decimated the home-grown nuclear industry so much that we have to buy in nuclear power plants from abroad. 

Part of our mix of energy is biomass, which is chipped trees transported by ship to the UK and then shipped to inland power stations. Yeah, that's surely more economical than coal sourced in the UK. 

It just makes you think whoever is making UK energy policy is insane. These are insane policies, they do not make sense. They do not make sense even in terms of net zero. They only make sense in terms of destruction of UK energy security and the destruction of heavy industry. Heavy industry that creates the weapons to keep us safe. 

Madness, utter insanity.