okwithmydecayEnergy bills set to rise as millions struggle with cost of living
reddig33Solar and Wind provide more cheap electricity than ever, so energy bills set to rise. What a grift.
Until the public are prepared to turn devices off whenever they’re told, we need readily available sources of energy that can be fired up at a moment’s notice to fill the gaps between demand and what the renewables are providing. That’s done with gas, and so we all have to pay to keep a handful of gas stations operational. The alternative is that you turn appliances off on still cloudy days, which I suspect you’d like less than your current energy bill
Newsflash — battery banks work just as well as gas peaker plants. And they’re currently cheaper.
Okay, so your bill is going to be a LOT higher for the next few years to pay for them to be built. Look, under our capitalist system there isn’t a way of having on-demand energy at all times without a cost to the consumer. I’d rather it were seen as an essential that the state provides, but there you go