Jan Wildeboer 😷
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.
Epistatacadam@jwildeboer I don't know what the logic was elsewhere, but in the UK, the distributed system of generation with grid support to neighbours was replaced by large coal fired power stations as big furnaces were more efficient and more reliable (as they rarely worked at full load.) But now when coal has disappeared from power generation the logic of large power stations has disappeared, I think Drax is the last solid fuel powe plant left. 1/2
@jwildeboer Drax now burns wood chips imported from elsewhere I believe. So is called biomass and called renewable.
Logically the advantages of dispersed local generation should now prevail as you said, a fact semi acknowledged by the UK Gov flirting with modular nuclear power stations. Domestic generation & storage is now reality for well insulated homes. Community generators could provide any extra via wind & micro hydro!
Logically the advantages of dispersed local generation should now prevail as you said, a fact semi acknowledged by the UK Gov flirting with modular nuclear power stations. Domestic generation & storage is now reality for well insulated homes. Community generators could provide any extra via wind & micro hydro!