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Nationalise Energy

Sustainable Electricity 

FREE ELECTRICITY
FOR YOUR HOME AND
FOR YOUR BUSINESSES 

  • Bring back the FIT (Feed in Tariffs) schemes (closed 2019) so shops and factories can generate their own power and gain near or complete free electricity for homes without the burden of maintenance (as the technologies owned by National Grid doing the FIT scheme). 

  • FIT scheme to not only be solar panels on roofs of shops and factories, but include vertical helix type or horizontal wind turbines up on the roof, blended into landscape with natural green colours. Owned and maintained by the FIT scheme. 

  • FIT scheme was a government programme designed to promote the uptake of renewable and low carbon electricity generation technologies. 


  • National Grid to do general building work to maximise solar / wind generation on your roofs. 


LOWER ENERGY BILLS 

  • By nationalising all power companies, can bring down energy bills as not paying dividends to shareholders. 

  • End Standing Charge before using any electricity or gas (using energy is called unit price). 
      • Background
        • Martin Lewis (Money saving Expert) told us Thursday 25 May, 2023, about the July lowering of energy bills, but informed does not help low users of energy, as you still pay around £300 Standing Charge just for having electricity and gas.
        • The standing charge has risen 86 per cent since winter 2021 and adds around £371 a year to bills (The End Fuel Poverty Coalition). 
        • The standing charge also includes the cost of rescuing customers of energy company suppliers that have collapsed, adding £94 a year to bills.
        • The Standing Charge will rise in 2023 to include the cost of Bulb, one of the largest failed energy suppliers.  

BRING BACK POWER COMPANIES INTO PUBLIC OWNERSHIP 
  • Nationalise all energy companies, without compensation to shareholders.  

  • Nationalise National Grid, without compensation for Electricity System Operator (ESO) or to the stock market listed company of full firm. 

  • Keep workers employed in fully nationalised National Grid (negotiate with trade union Prospect for those workers). 
  • Renationalised National Grid to employ and / or train workers in fitting solar panels and small wind turbines (not propellor ones) on the roofs of your home and on your business. 
Background - In 2024 part nationalisation of National Grid by Tories:-
... "The job of keeping the UK’s electricity and gas flowing will be returned to public control by 2024 under government plans for the effective nationalisation of a division of National Grid.

A new public body, the Future System Operator, will have responsibility for planning and managing energy distribution, with a focus on the challenges posed by decarbonisation."... 

..."The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) said the National Grid, a stock market-listed company since 1995, would be “appropriately compensated” in a transaction that will see the government take control of its Electricity System Operator (ESO), the part of the business that keeps the lights on. 

Some elements of managing the gas system will also transfer across."... 



STOP COAL MINE IN CUMBRIA 

  • For you living in Cumbria, could save you from new coal mine (Woodhouse Colliery),  near Whitehaven, Cumbria in the northwest of England, being considered by this Tory government. Not helping your energy bills but only business ..."Coal from the mine will not be for general energy usage, but to mainly support the steel-making process in the UK."...and "The committee points out that 85% of the Cumbrian coal will be exported anyway"...  Decision in summer 2022. 

STOP ANY NEW AND OLD FRACKING 

  • Immediately stop any fracking throughout the UK. 
Background
What is Fracking? 

      • Hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, is a process by which liquids at high pressure are forced down boreholes into formations of shale rock to break them up, releasing pockets of oil and gas stored within.
Why is Fracking a Problem?

      • concerns about tremors / earthquakes, 
      • risks polluting groundwater as the fracking fluid leaks out of boreholes. 
      • shale gas can escape directly into the atmosphere from the fracking wells, contributing to global warming. 
      • shale oil and gas do still produce significant amounts of climate-warming CO2 when they are burned, unlike forms of renewable energy such as solar and wind.
      • spectre of climate change. With the imperative to reduce greenhouse emissions to “net zero” by mid-century becoming ever clearer, any method to extract hydrocarbons to burn them is increasingly looking like yesterday’s solution.

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RE-TRAINING OF FOSSIL FUEL WORKERS
 
  • Free Re-training for workers from fossil fuel industries to Green Jobs 

  • Retrain coal, oil and gas workers into Green Jobs, created where they already live. 
Background 
..."need to retrain and re-skill traditional energy workers, while creating new employment prospects where they live to avoid social dislocation."... 


..."Clean energy roles will not necessarily be created in the same places as traditional jobs which were tied to fossil fuel resources in relatively remote areas."... 


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END ALL BIG PROPELLOR
WIND TURBINE MASTS 

• End big wind turbines on public and private land and wind farms having same. 

• Give planning permission to French wind trees or British manufactured more efficient wind masts, that do not spoil the landscape view. 


        • BACKGROUND

          • The Wind Tree is composed of
            3 steel trunks that stem into tinier branches on which the 36 leaf-shaped wind turbines are attached. The Wind Tree can exploit all types of wind, from gentle breezes to powerful gusts of wind in both urban and rural environments. Coloured natural green colours to further blend into environment. 
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SOLAR PANELS
NOT TO COVER ALL OF FIELDS 


• End farms covering farmland with solar panels. 

  • For farms already covered in solar panels, take out every other row, plant the land between the panels, with pesticide free wildflower meadow, so helps native bees and butterflies. 
  • And farmer or neighbouring farmer can have organic bee hives utilising the wildflower meadows of one or more farms already with fields covered in solar panels. Can be a selling factor to say honey gained from renewable solar power farms. 

SOLAR AND WIND
FIT SCHEMES
ON BUILDINGS AND
CAR PARKS 
  • Put solar panels atop flat roofed buildings, on tall roofs to multi-storey car parks  and recycling old propellors of wind turbines as covers to open car parks atop which put solar panels, under the FIT scheme, owned and maintained by nationalised National Grid. 

  • FIT scheme to not only be solar panels on roofs of shops and factories, but include vertical helix type and horizontal wind turbines up on the roof, blended into landscape with natural green colours. Owned and maintained by the FIT scheme. 

CAR PARK SOLAR 

..."With good planning and design, the
20,000 hectares of car parking space across the country could potentially yield an additional 8GW of solar capacity "... 


INDUSTRIAL BUILDINGS SOLAR 
..."the government estimates there are 250,000 hectares of south-facing, industrial roof space across the country. That’s an area bigger than London and Manchester combined, with the potential for a vast amount of solar panels.

We know that not all of these roofs will be available for solar panels. But, even a very conservative estimate suggests that this commercial roof space could provide an area big enough to generate approximately 25 GW of energy. "... 


... "Taken together, our commercial rooftops and those over car parks could provide more electricity than 10 nuclear power stations the size of Sizewell C"... 

..."From warehouses to schools, car parks and farm buildings, we can quickly roll out renewable energy without harming wildlife, food security and landscapes."... 

FARMS NOT USED FOR SOLAR 
..."Implementing roof-first planning policies that prioritise opportunities for generating solar energy from areas that are already built on, while avoiding land that is being viably and sustainably farmed."... 

NEW HOMES FITTED WITH SOLAR AND WIND 
..."Changing regulations so that rooftop solar on, and with, suitably oriented roofs is a standard requirement for new buildings, including homes."... 

The Campaign to Protect Rural England - CPRE


UK solar power target for 2035 obliterated
by inflated costs, government chaos,
and gridlock
By The Canary 10 January 2024 in Analysis, UK

..."A perfect storm of inflation, supply chain disruption, spiralling interest rates, and delays in connection to the National Grid means that the swathe of solar power farms approved and going through planning permission in the UK are likely to be severely delayed or cancelled – undermining any hopes of achieving the government target of a fivefold increase to 70GW by 2035.

Solar power: government gambling with carbon neutral

A new study by Huw Evans, an energy consultant and former head of global economics for BG Group, suggests that under the current macro-economic conditions and impasse at obtaining connection to the National Grid, any chance of these solar farms being viable in the near future is negligible. The government has gambled heavily on promoting solar energy to achieve its stated goal to be carbon neutral by 2035.

In his report, Evans goes on to say that despite greatly increased prices offered by the government in their Contract for Difference (CfD) allocation round to encourage renewable energy – where prices have been increased by 30% for solar energy – solar developers will still struggle to make any return on their investment.


That is before you take into any account delays in connecting to the National Grid. He says the UK government has vastly underestimated the increasing costs to develop solar farms, where their assumptions suggest the UK can develop solar energy cheaper than anywhere else in the world; based on published data, which is clearly unrealistic.

Huge backlogs in grid connection

Within the report, Evans points to International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) data that shows that given the UK’s climate, solar energy is within the worst 5% areas in the world to develop solar electricity, as only 10%-11% of the capacity of solar farms will ever be generated annually compared to double that in places such as Spain, Australia, and parts of the US.

For grid connection, as of November 2023, there are 1,300 projects that are awaiting connection which amounts to 400GW of grid access requirements. Companies applying for grid access have been told they have to wait 15 years before any electricity they produce can be sold.

New rules issued by the National Grid to alleviate the backlog of connections which effectively are “get on, get back, or get out of the energy queue” are in danger of creating thousands of acres of white elephants, as grid connections continue to be delayed with diggers tearing up the landscape and then being suspended as projects are put on hold pending a grid connection date.

Evans points out that this as already happened in Torquay, Devon where diggers have cleared a site only to be told that grid connection will be at least five years and there are indications that that could slip into the mid 2030s.

White elephants across the UK?

He further notes that Centrica have said that approximately 80% of the 300 substations across England and Wales need upgrading and:

Supergrid transformers are huge bits of kit that weigh several hundred tonnes, and it takes years to install them… We’re talking five to eight years for each one of these.

For projects to progress they will probably need an allocation of a CfD in the auction rounds, which come with a deadline of when the project needs to come on stream, a date from the National Grid to be connected which may or may not be in line with the deadline set by the CfD and provide the investor and financiers with a viable return on their investment which in the current climate is very doubtful.

These hurdles are hard to negotiate especially when the bodies that are setting the hurdles are not joined up and are blaming each other for delays in the process. The DNOs (Distribution Network Operator’s) blame National Grid for the delays, National Grid Blames Ofgem, and Ofgem blames the National Grid, but there is no mandate for Ofgem and National Grid to invest in the grid because that cost will be passed on to the consumer. No government wants to do that.

Peter Aston, a specialist connections engineer at the consultancy Roadnight Taylor notes:

2035 is just 12 years away and some of the transmission projects easily take 10 years to
12 years to complete.

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GREEN RENEWABLE ENERGY 

• Government fund universities doing research and development for industry and energy. 


WHAT NATIONALISED NATIONAL GRID WOULD DO FOR YOU
  • High rise government, council buildings, council owned leisure centres and state schools to self-generate electric power, with FIT schemes owned and maintained by National Grid. 

  • Capped landfill rubbish site to be used for rewilding and spread out solar power panels by nationalised National Grid. 

  • Wastewater treatment plants use sewage to generate energy on site. This energy is then used to help operate the wastewater treatment plants. Plus the excess energy can be used to pump drinking water to homes and businesses, or granted to National Grid beyond that use. 

  • Big privately-owned office blocks self-pay to utilise their dirty water to generate electricity to power building. Utilising British manufactured systems to gain the electric power for the building, from microbial fuel cell consisting of two chambers, one filled with wastewater or other nutrients and the other with water, each containing an electrode. Naturally occurring bacteria in the wastewater consume the organic material and produce electricity. 


  • No more hydro-electric dams. 
  • Instead have Run of River hydro power stations, but first looking into local impact study by environmental groups into their effect on river natural life.  


  • No more offshore wind, wave and tidal power energy systems until full impact study by environmental groups into their effect on marine life. 


  • End nuclear power stations and not commission new ones. So not polluting the planet with uranium mining. Redeploy staff, with works pensions moving with them. 


  • Ban Fracking, as with all the above means of self-generation of electric power, now not needed. 


• This all then ensures energy and water security in UK for business, public buildings and private homes. 


• Meets climate change targets.


• Meets transition to low-carbon economy (pollution), to continue the increase in jobs in those kinds of businesses. 


• Meet requirements of Climate Change Act and the Paris Agreement.  

2022 Profiteering by private companies

50 per cent of oil and gas in UK comes from our own North Sea oil and gas
so energy prices should not be massively increasing.

French Wind Trees

An old youtube video, about 9 years ago. Ours could be made under licence in UK

Sorry, Youtube videos cannot be viewed on mobiles on this website template.

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