Mastodawn

Energy companies really hate small renewables. They love nuclear and fossil fuels. Why? Renewables can be deployed in decentralised ways. That hurts their bottom line as they get reduced to taking care of distribution through their grids. But they want to control the input, not the distribution. They have focused on centralising electricity generation. That way they can simply make more money. That's why they oppose or actively try to fight microgrid solutions. Decentralisation is bad for them.

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MidgePhoto 1d ago

@jwildeboer
The UK national Grid company is distinct from the energy suppliers.
Now, they clearly know them and talk to them, as they must.

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Jan Wildeboer 😷

1d ago

@Photo55 There are differences per country, which is why I lumped them all together as "energy companies". The main point is that grids were designed with an architecture that relied on limited inputs and delivery to many endpoints. Upgrading that to a more flexible grid that can accept and balance many inputs and outputs is something that was perfectly predictable but most grid companies have stalled and delayed and the big producers are not unhappy about that ;)

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MidgePhoto

@jwildeboer agree on the design.
We had an enormous NIMBY fuss about building the Grid about when I was born, and extensions nowadays repeat it.
But progress is being made.
Adding big batteries each side of pinch points should help as well. Naturally we have NIMBYs and very distant activists opposing those. But they are ticking upwards.