Olly Wickham

NEW ANALYSIS: Cutting the 'green crap' has added £22bn to UK energy bills since 2015 🏘️Insulation rates down 98% 🏚️>1.6m new homes built to low stds 🌄Onshore wind/solar growth crashed A decade of rollbacks has left the UK more reliant on gas imports – and exposed to high gas prices carbonbrief.org/analysis-cutti…

I’m running to be ⁦@LibDems⁩ MP for Sutton Coldfield. And my goal is to visit every single pub in the constituency. This is The Station. I wonder why they called it that? Also been to today The Gate and The Kings Arms. Also been canvassing: people like The Sweeney.

Remember the fire at Luton Airport? All those people claiming it was started by an EV... Well, Beds Fire Service have completed their investigation: "The vehicle involved was diesel-powered – it was not a mild hybrid, plug-in hybrid or electric vehicle" bedsfire.gov.uk/news/fire-airp…

@eng_dad @Glazertwalker @clim8resistance @Protons4B Yes, indeed. I ran out of space in the tweet, so couldn’t elaborate on nuclear fission, but it is effectively unlimited. However it does have other downsides. Fusion on the other hand has all the upsides…in 20 years :-)

@Glazertwalker @ollywickham @clim8resistance @Protons4B The wonders of the English language. He was merely adding that nuclear is an option as an alternative to gas. Frankly, it should be the only option and we could stop needing to produce billions of tons of plastic and resins to pretend we're being green.

How many homes will it power when there is no wind? Why is this question so difficult for ministers to understand? Where is the energy security? Where are the 'thousands of quality jobs'? Stop lying, Claire.

@MhehedZherting @DiscePuer @clim8resistance @Protons4B Sorry, that was linked to by Drax, not actually by Drax

@MhehedZherting @DiscePuer @clim8resistance @Protons4B Oh, and here is one by Drax for the U.K. 11 days of low wind once every 20 years reports.electricinsights.co.uk/q1-2021/when-t…

@MhehedZherting @DiscePuer @clim8resistance @Protons4B This is a process called investing. People do it for longer term benefits. E.g. opening a well takes years, but can still make a profit. The gas network will also be pruned, rather than a big bang, so the benefits will come before the last gas boiler is off

@ollywickham @DiscePuer @clim8resistance @Protons4B You're not very good at presumptions. The *capital* costs of electricity grid upgrades must be spent well before gas network *running* costs decrease! "there are a bunch of estimates of net price of net zero" FFS - they couldn't even accurately cost the Smart Meter fiasco

@MhehedZherting @DiscePuer @clim8resistance @Protons4B These are some facts oxfordenergy.org/wpcms/wp-conte…

@ollywickham @DiscePuer @clim8resistance @Protons4B "Gazprom connected to the EU, and our prices bound to theirs" Never let inconvenient facts get in the way of propaganda or a misconceived bias. Please explain Sept 2023 gas price variability across Europe? Why fabricate a falsehood?

@Protons4B @MhehedZherting @DiscePuer @clim8resistance Twitter is terse, and as such people should be able to make some allowances for this. Some people relish not doing so as some form of one-upmanship that degrades the quality of the discussion

@MhehedZherting @DiscePuer @clim8resistance @Protons4B Yes, the project I was working in was sub-second demand removal. Storage heaters and car chargers can stop instantaneously. See Tesla’s VPP for an example of where the tech is going

@ollywickham @DiscePuer @clim8resistance @Protons4B 2/2 "... and demand curtailment can deal with second to second."??? Rubbish. Unless the new euphemism for 'blackout' is 'demand curtailment'. No curtailment occurs within or over a second-by-second time span.

@MhehedZherting @DiscePuer @clim8resistance @Protons4B Not only the wind’s effects, but transmission issues, large power station trip outs, etc. As for the public, I don’t think most know much about energy policy in general, or the system.

@ollywickham @DiscePuer @clim8resistance @Protons4B "Battery packs ... can deal with second to second." Yes, battery packs are excellent at providing stabilisation services to counteract *wind's destabilising effects*. The trouble is, few admit that's what batteries' prime duty is nowadays. The public think they're 4 storage 🤣

@MhehedZherting @DiscePuer @clim8resistance @Protons4B The predictability depends on what you are trying to predict. The amount of potential wind power in any given year will be predicable within a limit - e.g. 10% to an extremely high probability. The price of gas in a given year cannot be predicted with a high probability

@ollywickham @DiscePuer @clim8resistance @Protons4B 2/2 "It could be a once a century or once a decade event" It wasn't 'cos, there was longer lull the following year "Wind is more predictable than gas prices or OPEC"?? Grasping at straws again. A month ago, a 3-hour prior prediction of wind's contribution was 600% out!

@MhehedZherting @DiscePuer @clim8resistance @Protons4B How can a single incident prove the frequency? I am thinking you don’t understand statistics. This is like assuming all faces on a die are six because you rolled it once and it had six on. The 2018 link is in summer, which has been discussed

@ollywickham @DiscePuer @clim8resistance @Protons4B "pointing out one 7 day incident in 2017 isn’t a useful tool" It's an excellent tool to debunk your claims that prolonged lulls don't occur that frequently. But if you found fault with the 2017 lull, how about the 2018 one?

@MhehedZherting @DiscePuer @clim8resistance @Protons4B E.g. the OBR says relying on gas is probably more expensive than net zero edie.net/obr-uks-curren…

@MhehedZherting @DiscePuer @clim8resistance @Protons4B Presumably that 3 trillion over the time period is offset by benefits e.g. no gas network running costs, etc. there are a bunch of estimates of net price of net zero. Some are positive within 10 years, some are negative slightly. Some, funded by Tufton Street are just daft

@MhehedZherting @DiscePuer @clim8resistance @Protons4B Gazprom connected to the EU, and our prices bound to theirs

@ollywickham @DiscePuer @clim8resistance @Protons4B 1. Gazprom was not licensed to supply domestic consumers in Britain. 2. Before whinging about gas companies, first ask yourself about the rampant profiteering by renewables electricity generators! Some were generating up to 75% of their revenue by harvesting subsidies.

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@MhehedZherting @DiscePuer @clim8resistance @Protons4B To add to the “every second”, yes I have done frequently response with synthetic inertia. Battery packs and demand curtailment can deal with second to second.

@MhehedZherting @DiscePuer @clim8resistance @Protons4B 1. Yes, we discussed gas backup. 2.pointing out one 7 day incident in 2017 isn’t a useful tool to predict the future other than to say it is possible. It could be a once a century or once a decade event. That is why we model. Wind is more predictable than gas prices or OPEC