RE: British Energy Security Strategy and the Powering Up Britain Plan12 Jan 2025 11:39
StockCheque / Madit,
We all know that the Trolls are here just to post misinformation, so why do you still do it?
Why are you quoting from the April 2022 and March 2023 reports?
They were issued under the last Govt and the current Govt is busy trashing or changing everything the last Govt did, even when it doesn't make sense to do so.
You should be referencing the NESO 2030 report - the Bible by which HM Govt are going to achieve Net Zero (or not, if you actually read the report) - but you won't, because it doesn't back up your fantasy ramping.
The only way to achieve a clean grid is indeed to get the energy storage in place BEFORE the substantial increase in renewable energy.
Everyone and his Dog and his Dogs Fleas can see that, but not HM Govt as their plans are currently the exact opposite.
Even the NESO 2030 Report admits this, as it forecasts that Grid Capacity constraint payments to wind farms will increase from c. Β£1.6 Billion last year to c. Β£4.2 Billion in 2030 (page 34) or possibly as much as Β£10.9 Billion (page 36) - all of which is just wasted taxpayer money.
Battery storage is not going to be able to handle the sheer scale of electrical power storage needed.
You are also deliberately - and wrongly - conflating H2 production (nothing to do with UKOG) and H2 storage (in reality, also nothing to do with UKOG).
However, the NESO 2030 Report doesn't even mention H2 storage as an option (Section 2.2, pages 22 & 23), referring only to pumped water storage and liquid air.
You are also ignoring that the NESO 2030 report mentions Hydrogen Storage just once - on page 29 - and to quote "However, large-scale hydrogen storage appears unlikely before 2030.".
The Govt may well (should!) eventually fast track H2 storage.
However, currently there is no sign of them doing so - as evidenced by the contents of the NESO Report and also their delay in the timetable for the first H2 allocation round.
If they do decide to fast track H2 storage, then it will be YEARS quicker (and cheaper) to convert both depleted gas fields and salt cavities currently being used to store gas - both of which are already readily available in the NE - than to leach out new cavities.
In that respect, UKOG would be a long way down the priority list of any Govt award (which - as you both continually ignore - won't involve any funding).
But that's all irrelevant, as UKOG will have disappeared long before then.
Their only major asset - HH - is shut in, with no timetable as to when (if ever) production will be restored.
UKOG will need a placing within the next two months just to keep the lights on, and they'll also need a placing of c. 5 Billion shares in the very near future to fund the P&A and Site Restoration of BB.