Thread: Rising cost of living
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Old 31-08-2022, 12:03   #465
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Re: Rising cost of living
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Originally Posted by nomadking View Post
You can see the figures here.
We even import from Ireland, which seems odd.
If it's to Northern Ireland that makes sense to me.

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Why are we exporting 1GW to Norway at the moment? They are having problems with lack of water for their Hydroelectric plants.

We generally don't have the geography to do that(it needs 2 reservoirs per plant), but we do have 4 pumped storage plants. They use electricity at night when demand is lower. Solar isn't going to be much use then.
Because Norway has water problems doesn't mean the UK necessarily has water problems as well. I'm sure that more pumping and storage capacity can be built, it's just that the private sector has less incentive to develop more capacity when it can just by gas on the global market and pass on the costs to the consumer.
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