The House magazine is widely read among our MPs and it contains a lot of interesting articles on the key issues of the day. The latest edition contains a number of articles on net zero. The link below is to the one by Lord Howell, a former Tory Energy Secretary. He makes a good point, that the net zero push has only just started, but people are led to believe that we are already half way there. As he says, electricity may be currently reducing its reliance on fossil fuels, but electricity is currently less than 20% of the UK's total energy usage.
"That still leaves some 60 to 70 per cent of fossil fuel energy flows needing to be converted to clean electricity by 2050 or an earlier date. Even with optimism, that’s another three times present electricity output, or a minimum of about another 200 gigawatts (GW) on top of the present 65GW."
"An almost totally new grid system – four to five times the present capacity – will be necessary to bring greatly expanded wind-sourced electricity onshore, and connect up new nuclear sites with strings of new pylons to deliver it. We will also rely heavily on new interconnectors to bring in electricity, and gas, from neighbours at peak times." Why he thinks our neighbours will be able to spare so much electricity when they are undergoing the same major transition I have no idea.
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