A very similar story to water. It’s a great pit that more people are not aware of this situation. The next time I write about wind turbines I shall have to include this information.

Currently there is an extra charge hidden in your domestic fuel bills and this goes towards subsidising the ‘feed-in tariff’ enjoyed by wind farm operators owned outside of Wales. Although this hidden tax is included but not stipulated on your energy bills.

Here are the rates.

https://www.gov.uk/guidance/climate-change-levy-rates

Electricity (per Kwh)
From
0.583p from 01/04/2018
0.847p from 01/04/2019
0.811p from 01/04/2020
0.775p from 01/04/2021

Gas (per Kwh)
0.203p from 01/04/2018
0.339p from 01/04/2019
0.406p from 01/04/2020
0.465p from 01/04/2021

For consumers who use physically delivered energy like LPG, oil or coal.
2.175p per Kg.
3.174p per Kg.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOVO9svt6hs
A previous tax of global responsibility.

This cost applies to all consumers of domestic energy in the United Kingdom, so it is paid in Wales by households surrounded by wind turbines and the same tax rate at those consumers in London and the home counties who have virtually no wind turbines.

A household in the South Wales valleys, or Ceredigion and Powys who’s wind power installations produce far more than domestic consumption of the area they are still paying a levy on their fuel bills to cross-subsidise turbine free areas in England. There are also areas of Wales in rural areas which are not connected to the gas grid, even within sight of a wind turbine, who rely on LPG or oil heating who are penalised even more.

A classic example of colonialism. The 21st century equivalent of the levy on a bushel of Irish grain, tax on the pound of American tea.

OK, John.

FYI Jac, i’ve received a reply from Dai saying he’ll look into it and get back to me. He always responds, even since I resigned from the party. I’ll let you know what he comes back with.

I didn’t intend for that last post to be anonymous by the way.

There is fragmentation of ownership of the GB generating capacity and the emphasis on major wind farms that rely on fossil fuel gas power stations leads to grid instability. There are ‘coupling contracts’. These contracts are aimed at preventing ‘down’ penalties as well as guaranteeing ‘up’ bonuses. This introduces inherent instability.

The Hornsea Crash.

At 16h58 on 09/08/2019 one of the ‘idling in wait’ turbines at Little Barford (Bedfordshire) gas power station went down. A few minutes later, at 17h01, there was a lightening strike the Hornsea offshore wind farm (North Sea) and it’s protective equipment immediately de-loaded the wind farm from 799MW to 62MW. The idling gas turbine that was needed to spin up to cover the shortfall was not available. A domino effect was the result. National Grid automatically shut down parts of the network to maintain voltage. There were even outages in Wales.

The result is here..
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/9691385/power-cut-uk-trains-tubes-power-lights-outage/

This incident not only illustrates the fallacy of ‘wind power’ as a reliable source of electricity generation, but also the vital need for fossil fuel generation coupled to any wind power capacity. The cost to the economy in the blackout would have made a substantial contribution to building the Swansea tidal lagoon. The tides race even when there’s a lightning strike, and a spare or idling turbine in a tidal array can be sped up at very short notice. I always laugh when people say that the tidal lagoon costs too much to build, but they never itemise the cost of NOT building it.

Tidal is the renewable that can stops wind being reliant of fossil fuels, as well as introducing resilience.

Your extensive CV is not so extensive as to identify you as anyone other than someone with an interest in climate change and going by the large variety of topics you post on one of many interests.

You tend to cherry pick data that suggests evidence against the accepted (by 95% plus of professional experts) view of man made climate change. You are by no means unique in this approach. For generations the tobacco industry’s defence of smoking was based on jumping on the gaps in research that showed smoking was harmful. As time passed more and more research and data gaps were filled. Same is happening with Man made Climate change. For all your experience and qualifications your seem to have missed what’s happening

Germany ? Check Gridwatch Germany. Note how much electricity they produce from FILTHY LIGNITE….BROWN COAL………and Hard Black coal !

Why? to send millons of Mercs, BMWs, Opels, VWs etcetc…….worldwide…..WHILST WE SHUT DOWN OUR MEAGRE INDUSTRY AND BEHAVE LIKE GOOD BOYS !

We buy German cars….MADE FROM ELECTRICITY FROM GERMAN COAL-FIRED POWER STATIONS ., EVEN FILTHY LIGNITE !

Germany has 80 million population; UK has 65 million !

CHECK ELECTRICITY CONSUMPTION [ or production] PER CAPITA AND TELL US WHICH IS THE HIGHER………GERMANY OR UK !!

It’s very WINDY ! Post the percentages when the next UK HIGH PRESSURE arrives !
PLUS…the UK IS NOT WORKING.on New Year’s Eve …….especially public sector…..so UK useage is LOW, making the wind percentage HIGHER on a low UK production of electricity
That 14 per cent from WIND will drop dramatically when industry is busy and a High arrives..
We need a NORMAL WORKING DAY to study figures.

Come off it Brychan ! An anti-cyclone is a HIGH PRESSURE ZONE…..with very little wind.
It can cover the UK from west to east. If the UK needs 60000MW in winter, then that entails 120,000 x 400 ft wind turbines of 2MW installed capacity[ which produce 0.5MW each ON AVERAGE.
But the WHOLE UK is 94,500 square miles……..so where the efin hell do you put 120,000 wind turbines, when the noise from ONE can carry 2 miles at night?

But under that ANTI-CYCLONE , very few will be producing any electricity.

Check out gridwatch.templar.co.uk when the next High Pressure [CALLED AN ANTI-CYCLONE] settles over UK.
Wind energy may only contribute 1000MW or less……..so “night storage” won’t solve your problems.
How can you CLOSE FOSSIL FUEL POWER STATIONS , when the next High Pressure makes WIND TURBINES USELESS ?
Read “The Wind Farm Scam” by Dr John Etherington to LEARN !

ME.
I am qualified in both mechanical and electrical engineering, but for many years have worked on the financial side. Previously London based, €40bn, Japanese owned company and before that a Swedish company involved in bulk shipping, ferries and offshore construction. In the last few years, however, I fill my time with railway based ‘retirement work’. That however, is not relevant. You raise it. I always pride myself, as an engineer, in the technique of explaining difficult concepts in simple terms, no matter who they are and from whatever background, helping people understand concepts and getting to the root of how things work.

My political views are evident.

DENIAL.
May I introduce you to a piece I wrote on this blog last year.
https://jacothenorth.net/blog/the-myth-of-temperate-forestation-as-viable-sequestrate-of-carbon-dioxide/
It starts with the phrase “Global warming is a reality”.

DATA.
The references I have made are to data supplied from published by NASA satellites for global temperature, and the Greenland ice core data is the same as those provided by yourself, only I have removed the manipulation, the truncation of the dataset to a smaller time segment to fit a pre-conceived political agenda.

EVOLUTION.
You mention this in terms of “deniers”. It’s important to understand the process in order to accept the concept. For example, mankind did not evolve from an ape. Both apes and man have a common ancestor, an important difference. This is backed up by fossil record and DNA chronology. The data that defines the process. In the same way we must approach the issue of global warming. It is not a question of ‘faith’ or ‘scientist know best’.

SCIENTISTS.
Have met lots of these in my time, with various specialties. One thing is common. They all base their work on objective data. A good way to spot a fake, a BBC journalist masquerading as a scientist, a politician with a pre-conceived agenda, or even absentee schoolgirl with emotional issues, it is to question the evidence. When, Where and How are good questions, but the most important question is “Why?” There is a need to understand the process if any action is to be successful. That includes everyone, including you and I.

We must also call out shysters, like Bryn Blaen, which Jac is doing on this blog.