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The UK’s national grid has been utterly transformed in the last 8 years with coal making way for wind and solar. This is only the beginning of the shift to green energy, watch as James Kelloway, Energy Intelligence Manager, from National Grid ESO explains how the UK became genuinely world-leading, and because “we are the first generation who understand climate change, and the last who can do anything about it”, where we are going next. Robert talks to James about how renewables are overtaking fossil fuels, supply and demand, artificial intelligence, vehicle-to-grid, batteries, negative pricing, nuclear, exporting renewable energy, electrifying heat and transport, and the future increase in wind, solar and tidal. For easy reference through each section of this episode, see *timestamps* below.
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Timestamps:
0:00 Start
0:07 Ten years of ‘positive energy’ Montage
1:19 Introduction to James Kelloway, National Grid ESO
1:59 Renewables overtake Fossil Fuels
4:07 Balancing power supply & demand
5:36 Artificial Intelligence to predict power demand
6:21 Large-Scale V2G & Batteries on the Grid
9:40 Negative Pricing & being paid to charge your Electric Car
11:04 Nuclear’s ‘inertia’ advantage
13:05 Exporting Renewable Energy to Europe
13:35 Possible to electrify Heat & Transport
15:57 Cheaper to pay people to have power
16:30 Electrifying future possibilities
18:40 Where will be in 10 years time – Wind, Solar, Tidal
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The Green Grid Forum 2013 was held on March 5-6 in Santa Clara, CA. Over 250 attendees participated in sessions led by experts from 25+ organizations including eBay, EPA ENERGY STAR®, Google, Microsoft, and Verizon. Check out this video to learn about the highights of the Forum. Presentations and new papers are available for download at: http://www.thegreengrid.org/library-and-tools.aspx.
The UK's national grid has been utterly transformed in the last 8 years with coal making way for wind and solar. This is only the beginning of the shift to green energy, watch as James Kelloway, Energy Intelligence Manager, from National Grid ESO explains how the UK became genuinely world-leading, and because "we are the first generation who understand climate change, and the last who can do anything about it", where we are going next. Robert talks to James about how renewables are overtaking fossil fuels, supply and demand, artificial intelligence, vehicle-to-grid, batteries, negative pricing, nuclear, exporting renewable energy, electrifying heat and transport, and the future increase in wind, solar and tidal. For easy reference through each section of this episode, see timestamps in the description.
The forthcoming cable running from Norway to the UK will deliver clean electricity to the UK. The Norwegians will replace that profitable eco electricity with cheaper coal fired power from Russia. Cynical or what? Also bear in mind the Norwegians have also been getting fantastically rich on oil from the Barents sea and minerals from their mountains – all with major environmental impacts. The largest road stone quarry in Europe is near Jelsa in Norway – it dumps 250,000 tonnes of detritus into the fjord every year and burns 5 million litres of diesel on site – children from local schools visit it on days out and anyone who says anything against it is literally shunned by the community. One of the quays that is being built to service our off shore wind farms is getting all its ballast from that same Norskstein quarry.
The Blasjo reservoir which is an hours drive from the same quarry is a, 82 sq/km marvel of engineering and part of the infrastructure built mostly at the end of the last century. It had a big effect on Salmon populations when first built – a 20% loss was reported in all the rivers connected to it. However that may be considered a price worth paying for renewable electricity. Selling it to make a profit that depends on dirty power from abroad is another matter.
In any case it would be good if fully charged and others who are rightly enthusiastic about the shift to renewables would stop lionising the Norwegian model. The Norwegian tourist board motto is "powered by nature" – it is both true and profoundly dissembling. Norway happens to have a perfect natural set up hydro but nevertheless is powered largely by avarice. In the Norse myths Helge , the holy warrior, defeats anger and hatred but is killed on the rock of greed…
With reference to the grid melting. The nice chap said about 7KW showers. Teslas have 85KWh batteries so that is a 7KW draw for 12 hours. Obviously you won't be doing that. But half charge is reasonable. So 6 hours. Showers are only on for ten minutes not 6 hours. There is only 1 shower in a house not 2 or 3. People in different houses on your street don't shower at the same time but would be charging at the same time. The local grid in the street WON'T cope with that demand. It was never designed to.
Running our transport system (Aeroplanes, ships, commercial vehicles and a proportion of cars) off green hydrogen is the only way forward.
This interview really needs to be updated every year or two so that we can watch them all back to back 20 years from now. It's a shame we had to wait so long for this update but this isn't a complaint, I completely understand it's not easy to set these things up.
Great work.
Not the first generation. Exon has been suppressing climate change data since the 70s
It has always been an exciting area to work in. Trying to better every day.
The battery in australia is being looked at for inertia
If nukes are so great, put one under the houses of parliament. London uses huge amounts of power, it has the thames for cooling and it's perfectly safe……. Nukes are not cheap when you consider the long tail of storage and accidents.
It might not be easy but it is possible to arrange your own visit to the national grid. Form a group of about 30 and write off to them. I met somebody from the grid who suggested it and we managed to get a group of 30 together and had a really interesting day. It is only fair to get a good group together because at the time the guides were taken away from their normal jobs. Perhaps they should have properly organised open days at the weekends. the more people that know of their work the better. It really is at the core of well everything. I get really fed up with a lot of denialist pricks in the popular press whining about what happens when the sun don't blow and the wind don't shine. They are obliged to push forwards with more and more renewables which is of course new frontiers, new problems to address. The place drips competence and they know their stuff. They plan and practice "black starts" when the whole grid has to be restarted something that has never happened before. Sleep easy your grid is in good hands
Really interesting interview , thanks – and just to re-enforce the point, as I type this I see that Renewable energy sources have been supplying an average of 30% of total Grid demand over this last week of June
Well this was reassuringly optimistic.
This is a wonderful conversation Robert. Can you folks come to America and help us out 🙂
It’s really exciting how far we’ve come. Electric buses might not be as bad as he thinks though, my local bus company “Big Lemon buses” in Brighton, UK has been converting its fleet to electric over the past few years, as part of this they installed a solar array on their depot roofs. Whilst it won’t be enough by the time they’ve converted their entire fleet it should take the edge off. I love the slogan on their diesel buses “when I grow up I want to be electric” 🙂
What is the song used at the beginning of the video?
How do you get paid for filling up your car??? Is it just by having an EV and some kind of smart charger?
the 19th century had the industrial revolution, the 21st century will be the renewables revolution.
38 kWh gas boiler? Did he mean 38 kW or do gas boilers have a water tank that can store 38 kWh of heat?
What a brilliant episode. And I also caught on the news the other day that the power utility companies have reduced Thier oil usage massively, and coal usage is almost non existent now. That's great news, especially as I remember being told 40 years ago that we only had 65 years left of Gas and Oil. It's such a shame they dragged Thier feet for 30 years before they thought about doing something about it. So I'm looking forward to cleaner air in the near future. If we could just get batteries that are lighter in weight but with increased capacity then Electric-only public and commercial transport will finally become a fully viable option. It still grated me to have to pay £200 for replacement Lead Acid AGM batteries for my wife's wheelchair because there isn't any Lithium alternatives readily available. THAT has to change. …FAST