Kathryn Porter has an article in The Telegraph on the news that Mad Ed may be about to offload some of the costs of ‘clean’ electricity onto gas, a disgraceful idea which was initially floated by Emma Pinchbeck, now in charge at the Climate Change Committee.
Miliband and the Green Blob are getting desperate as it slowly dawns that they have no hope of getting anywhere near their 2030 grid decarbonisation target.
It is reported today that a parliamentary committee has urged Miliband to adopt zonal pricing in the forlorn hope that even higher electricity prices in the South will trigger the necessary massive deployment of renewables:
Such a drastic move could have all sorts of unexpected consequences. It could lead to lower prices in Scotland, which is awash with wind farms but will soon have very little synchronous plant. What would Scotland do then if the South were unwilling to share their expensive synchronous electricity for essential back-up and balancing of Scotland's fickle wind power?
The same question would (or should, it didn't last time) apply even more strongly in the unlikely event of Scotland voting for independence.
I need to look into this further. Maybe ChatGPT can help, or someone like Kathryn Porter. Scotland’s Green Blob “useful idiots” have done a truly outstanding job of wrecking our energy infrastructure, carpeting our landscapes and seascapes with intermittent, short lifespan wind farms, closing down coal-fired power stations (Longannet gleefully blown up by Sturgeon herself) and spurning nuclear power to the point that the last Scottish nuclear power station will soon be closed down for good.
It seems to me that Scotland is near to being very susceptible to national power cuts, firstly as in the recent Iberian grid collapse due to lack of grid inertia, most likely in summer sunny breezy conditions of low demand and secondly due to lack of supply, most likely in midwinter Dunkelflaute conditions when the demand for power is highest.
The UK suffered a small-scale version of the former in 2019 which Kathryn Porter keeps mentioning. We also had a very localised (around Inverness) blackout in 2014 which I’m sure was triggered by a sudden spike in wind electricity supply due to a violent squall which was sufficient to blow off the barn door of a local farmer friend! He posted on it here: https://windfarmaction.wordpress.com/2014/04/18/north-of-scotland-power-cuts-16-04-14/.
It seems entirely plausible that the “authorities”, in practice politicians and the Green Blob, have simply ignored these power cut possibilities, if they even knew about them at all. I’ve just had first-hand experience of a similar blob design disaster on a trip to Arran, namely the inept procurement of new Scottish ferries. The first new ferry (Glen Sannox) is at long last in service (still without its LNG "eco-fuel"), years behind schedule and £millions over budget and it is clearly not fit for purpose, too top-heavy, too big and insufficiently manoeuvrable in windy conditions which her sister catamaran ferry can handle with ease.
What a shambles! It’s just as well these people are so clueless in everything they do or they would have us all secured in digital handcuffs by now, “owning nothing but happy”.
Right! Scotland's been caught with diesel generators installed at the foot of the windmills to keep them turning even when there is no wind, for the sake of appearances.
Can Scotland remove the Jihadists from its governments?
This represents the latest attempt to mislead the public into believing that electricity is cheaper than gas (I suppose it will be if you load the price of gas with artificial carbon pricing plus the absurdly high costs of renewables subsidies and the extra cost faced by the grid in coping with their intermittency and widespread geographical locations).
It all represents what I consider to be a profoundly dishonest attempt to hide the costs of renewables by pretending that those costs aren't making electricity expensive.
You are correct in saying that - especially if we suffer a hard winter - this will kill people if it goes ahead. This is the problem with zealots, for whom the end always seems to justify the means.
All that is bad enough, but even if he does succeed in 95% decarbonisation of the grid by 2030 it won't achieve a single one of his stated objectives. It won't make a jot of difference to climate change; it won't make us better off (quite the reverse); it won't improve the number and quality of jobs (probably it will cost jobs); and it won't enhance our energy security (again, just the reverse)
I too had thought he was more bad than mad, but watching him recently, he just comes across as completely insane, or as David Turver says, "possessed". I'm thinking he might be right and that what Ed needs is not so much a strait-jacket, comfy couch and sessions with a psychiatrist, but a bona fide Exorcist!
el gato malo did a very insightful post recently on the mindset of leftists like Miliband. They start with an ideology then work backwards using whatever mental gymnastics it takes for justification. Regardless of whether or not they do it consciously, it still makes them evil. https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/being-dishonest-about-honesty
Religious and ideological obsessions have plagued humanity for ever. Cults like Net-Zero come and go and usually cause huge suffering and societal damage. Cults are similar in their emphasis on virtue, sacrifice, suffering and of course loyalty to the cause. The more unrealistic is the cause, the more infatuated are the followers.
Only rarely is there an outbreak of common sense when reason prevails and humanity makes huge strides forwards. We are fortunate to have lived through one such outbreak - the Enlightenment - and enjoyed its benefits.
Now, humanity is again reverting to type. The lessons and successes of the Age of Reason and the Industrial Age are hidden in plain sight from those in power.
They’re about to make electricity more expensive in the south with zonal pricing.
Miliband urged to save net zero through higher bills in the Southhttps://www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/97a56a84b3cb7310
That should put an end to heat pump targets.
Miliband and the Green Blob are getting desperate as it slowly dawns that they have no hope of getting anywhere near their 2030 grid decarbonisation target.
It is reported today that a parliamentary committee has urged Miliband to adopt zonal pricing in the forlorn hope that even higher electricity prices in the South will trigger the necessary massive deployment of renewables:
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/06/04/miliband-urged-save-net-zero-through-higher-bills-in-south/.
Such a drastic move could have all sorts of unexpected consequences. It could lead to lower prices in Scotland, which is awash with wind farms but will soon have very little synchronous plant. What would Scotland do then if the South were unwilling to share their expensive synchronous electricity for essential back-up and balancing of Scotland's fickle wind power?
The same question would (or should, it didn't last time) apply even more strongly in the unlikely event of Scotland voting for independence.
I need to look into this further. Maybe ChatGPT can help, or someone like Kathryn Porter. Scotland’s Green Blob “useful idiots” have done a truly outstanding job of wrecking our energy infrastructure, carpeting our landscapes and seascapes with intermittent, short lifespan wind farms, closing down coal-fired power stations (Longannet gleefully blown up by Sturgeon herself) and spurning nuclear power to the point that the last Scottish nuclear power station will soon be closed down for good.
It seems to me that Scotland is near to being very susceptible to national power cuts, firstly as in the recent Iberian grid collapse due to lack of grid inertia, most likely in summer sunny breezy conditions of low demand and secondly due to lack of supply, most likely in midwinter Dunkelflaute conditions when the demand for power is highest.
The UK suffered a small-scale version of the former in 2019 which Kathryn Porter keeps mentioning. We also had a very localised (around Inverness) blackout in 2014 which I’m sure was triggered by a sudden spike in wind electricity supply due to a violent squall which was sufficient to blow off the barn door of a local farmer friend! He posted on it here: https://windfarmaction.wordpress.com/2014/04/18/north-of-scotland-power-cuts-16-04-14/.
It seems entirely plausible that the “authorities”, in practice politicians and the Green Blob, have simply ignored these power cut possibilities, if they even knew about them at all. I’ve just had first-hand experience of a similar blob design disaster on a trip to Arran, namely the inept procurement of new Scottish ferries. The first new ferry (Glen Sannox) is at long last in service (still without its LNG "eco-fuel"), years behind schedule and £millions over budget and it is clearly not fit for purpose, too top-heavy, too big and insufficiently manoeuvrable in windy conditions which her sister catamaran ferry can handle with ease.
What a shambles! It’s just as well these people are so clueless in everything they do or they would have us all secured in digital handcuffs by now, “owning nothing but happy”.
Right! Scotland's been caught with diesel generators installed at the foot of the windmills to keep them turning even when there is no wind, for the sake of appearances.
Can Scotland remove the Jihadists from its governments?
This represents the latest attempt to mislead the public into believing that electricity is cheaper than gas (I suppose it will be if you load the price of gas with artificial carbon pricing plus the absurdly high costs of renewables subsidies and the extra cost faced by the grid in coping with their intermittency and widespread geographical locations).
It all represents what I consider to be a profoundly dishonest attempt to hide the costs of renewables by pretending that those costs aren't making electricity expensive.
You are correct in saying that - especially if we suffer a hard winter - this will kill people if it goes ahead. This is the problem with zealots, for whom the end always seems to justify the means.
All that is bad enough, but even if he does succeed in 95% decarbonisation of the grid by 2030 it won't achieve a single one of his stated objectives. It won't make a jot of difference to climate change; it won't make us better off (quite the reverse); it won't improve the number and quality of jobs (probably it will cost jobs); and it won't enhance our energy security (again, just the reverse)
All those things, but Mr Milibean still ploughs ahead with inextinguishable pop-eyed zeal. That's why he's called Mad Ed.
You think he's stupid, I think he's stupid, most sensible people think he's stupid, but Big Ed just doesn't think at all.
Is Miliband mad or bad? Dominic Frisby thinks he's mad: https://x.com/DominicFrisby/status/1929833129797189999?t=BMLqZOEy75PZg3E88HMQ1Q&s=19
I don't think it's a joking matter, I think Miliband is bad, not mad, coldly-calculating evil personified.
Perhaps he's both. Which ever he is it's bad news for us.
I too had thought he was more bad than mad, but watching him recently, he just comes across as completely insane, or as David Turver says, "possessed". I'm thinking he might be right and that what Ed needs is not so much a strait-jacket, comfy couch and sessions with a psychiatrist, but a bona fide Exorcist!
el gato malo did a very insightful post recently on the mindset of leftists like Miliband. They start with an ideology then work backwards using whatever mental gymnastics it takes for justification. Regardless of whether or not they do it consciously, it still makes them evil. https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/being-dishonest-about-honesty
Religious and ideological obsessions have plagued humanity for ever. Cults like Net-Zero come and go and usually cause huge suffering and societal damage. Cults are similar in their emphasis on virtue, sacrifice, suffering and of course loyalty to the cause. The more unrealistic is the cause, the more infatuated are the followers.
Only rarely is there an outbreak of common sense when reason prevails and humanity makes huge strides forwards. We are fortunate to have lived through one such outbreak - the Enlightenment - and enjoyed its benefits.
Now, humanity is again reverting to type. The lessons and successes of the Age of Reason and the Industrial Age are hidden in plain sight from those in power.