Monday, February 26, 2024

The UK is much closer to blackouts than anyone dares to admit

The UK is much closer to blackouts than anyone dares to admit
  • It won’t take an enemy power to put us all in the dark – just energy customers doing normal things on a normal winter’s evening.

"Of all the problems with electric cars, perhaps the least expected was the revelation that some home charging points provide a potential point of weakness for malign foreign powers to interfere with our National Grid
Last week, the Office for Product Safety and Standards ordered the company Wallbox to stop selling its Copper SB chargers because hackers could potentially access the chargers and incapacitate the grid by such means as suddenly turning on thousands of chargers full-pelt at the same time.
But do we really need a foreign power to crash our electricity grid when we are quite capable of inflicting it on ourselves?...
  • But another large part of the picture seems to be “demand flexibility” – a polite term for rationing energy through smart meters, jacking up the price whenever supply is short. 
  • No wonder the Government seems keener than ever to force smart meters on us...

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