I suspect National & their allies will only move when a situation like supermarkets refusing to buy eggs happens, but with international purchasers rather than local.
To a degree I suspect that already happens from the major UK supermarket chains, but its likely to only get worse the more we ignore, or regress in our international climate pledges.
The link won’t open, I’m not sure if it’s a bad link or their website is having issues.
Working now so I guess it was their site.
I had to go to their website and find it, it refuses to work for me.
Yet, to achieve that we need nothing less than a fundamental transformation of our electricity system from a 20th century model dominated by gentailers involving large-scale generation, long distance transmission and concentrated market power to a 21st century one based on local generation, use, trading and storage of renewable sources of electricity.
Oh good grief. We’re not going to power a nation with rooftop solar and other small scale power, especially when our peak power usage happens on the coldest nights of the year. Our hydro dams are the backbone of the grid, and they’re at the opposite end of the country to our biggest centre of demand.
More local, distributed generation would help with the big problem in our energy system being the big hydro dams being at the opposite end of the country to the biggest source of demand. It’s not saying get rid of the big hydro dams, it’s saying we’ll need a different model for the future.
I’d love some technical details on how you think this will work.
No you wouldn’t
Quite frankly, I think both you and the author lack the technical knowledge to make that claim.
Case in point, you’re not actually interested. Where’s your technical argument oh great one?
My technical argument is there’s a good reason why we do things the way we do, and if you want to change, it’s on you to prove your way is better.
I have solar. My power bill halved, so total imported units is probably reduced by about 30%. If everyone had solar, demand on the grid would drop by a significant amount.
Your turn. Why would rooftop/local solar and wind not help?
