The idea that the sort of energy useage from petroleum (grey line) could be accommodated by 'winding back' the slight recent decine in electricty consumption (orange line) seems optimistic ...... replacing fossil fuels for transport would wipe out our current total electricity generating capacity from all sources more than twice over .... and our electricity is already fully utilised running stuff like industry, hospitals and people's homes, so the required increase in capacity in the short (in the context of major infrastructure projects) timescales seems somewhat challenging
Add to that the stated phasing out of natural gas, meaning all that current gas energy useage has to be replaced at the same time, and the energy supply issue looks worryingly difficult
K
This doesn't take into account the extra energy demand as domestic heating switches from gas to electricity as domestic gas boilers are outlawed and are replaced with heat sink pumps etc all driven by electricity...........
It will be interesting to see how far Stelios's (Easyjet) developing proposition of using existing power stations converted to burn household waste cleanly to produce electricity contributes to dealing with our waste and increase the electricity generation capacity.
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