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Getting bakers in to describe the grid upgrade is excellent! It's a great analogy for connections reform where the consultation might as well have been done by bakers as the only workable solutions were dropped early on, leaving only unworkable variations. Talking off terrible things: - trying to model the background system when giving connection dates - kicking projects off the connections register for arbitrary reasons (not meeting milestones) The first you can't do, as you don't know which projects will get build; the second is ridiculous as meeting early milestones is no evidence of meeting later ones and not meeting them is not evidence of not meeting the later ones. Yes, you need to change the process. But your remaining variations HAVEN'T changed the process sufficiently. Variation 5 was so close to being workable, but it's flaw was using an auction for capacity rather than constraint with the Balancing Mechanism. - Let all projects connect wherever they want - Auction constraints That allows tech to come into the market to solve those constraints as there's a price signal.

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Incredible stuff! Love this - so entertaining and a great campaign ❤🎉

It's a very interesting topic but I'm a bit mystified why you'd use a "children's TV" style presenter to ask the questions. I'll admit it annoyed me. Can anyone recommend a good video (or a book or site) explaining more fully how the grid works, balancing of power, grid batteries, LCOE, efficiencies, energy trading etc?

Net zero is a noble objective. What we have is Net Stupid though, as all we're doing is exporting our industry, knowhow and jobs abroad and in so doing increasing our carbon footprint and harmful emissions in the process. The gas grid carries 7 times as much energy as the electrical grid. To move away from gas to electric will require a massive growth in electrical grid and power generation. It's taken 100 years to build the existing electrical grid and these people think we can increase the capacity 7 fold in just a few years! That's not to mention the petrol and diesel powered transport that is also switching to electricity so how many more times capacity will it need for that? Who can tell me what we're to make plastic from without oil or what we'll use instead of plastic? Who can tell me what we'll use instead of tarmac to make our roads with? What will we use in place of oil to make tyres with? What will we power ships with if not oil to transport back what we used to make here? How will our military operate with electric tanks, trucks, aircraft and ships? What we're currently embarking on is an act of self harm, and far from saving the planet we're making the situation worse. There is no joined up thinking here and no debate, you will comply or else! We need to do something as we're using non-renewal recourses that will run out at some point, so we need to plan for that, just not this madness!

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It’s a shame the visitors centre was closed down this tour was amazing

I’ve been to a similar site in Cruachan, near Oban, in Scotland, where the installation is in a mountain, with a loch at the top.

This year 2024 HHG the perpetual motion machine, invented by a pilipino. Don't waste your time. Find this person before the world start boiling because of climate change.

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I suppose the cost of this is going on my electric bill as well together with the cost of concrete windmills subsidies and electric car subsidies and solar panel subsidies!

Second and still so motivating - really chuffed of been part of this sector - would love to be able to see all these Congratulations NGESO

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This was a lot better than episode 1

Very interesting. As a retired DNO worker I'm looking forward to a section on distribution. Oh, and lose the 'Kid's TV' presenter 😉

James, less jokes please!!, But it is great to see real skilled, trained engineers. thanks

Make it less like kis's TV and more like a boring ASMR documentary from before TV became over commercialised in the 90a

Brilliant thank you 😊

Great video! As a refrigeration engineer I'm aware of SF6 as being pretty much the most potent fluorinated gas for global warming with a GWP of around 23000, but I wasn't aware of the mind-bending quantities used in switchgear! I wouldn't want to have to report an accidental leak of that stuff!

Thank you for giving an insight into what makes the National Grid.

Please please please do an episode on the old LV network and cover network net current aka diverted neutral current.

As an electrician of 30 years I have seen most things but very little HV and grid equipment so to have a good look around these machines make this a good video. Cheers. Got to love the registration of the helicopter. G-RIDC.

Amazing video. Real shame they closed the visitors center of Dinorwig as it was so interesting.

I am fascinated with the energy transmission and the transition to net zero. My question is what is the efficiency factor of Dinorwig. I.e for every 1 unit of energy generated by releasing the water from top to bottom. How much energy does it take to pump back it back up to the top. I am convinced grid battery storage is the key to our future.

Lots of work to keep everything operating that you would normally not think off. At what point will it make sense to move to drones to inspect the pylons? Seems like a cheaper option with less noice.

Please use real terms, an hour and a half that way is nothing in terms of an answer! Is that skipping, helicopters or cycling? Same goes for 1 thousand kWh, isnt that a mega watt? I dont advertise £1 as 100 pennies so don’t do it with measurements! Dont get me started on soccer pitches or Olympic swimming pools, not seen either but educated in acres and square miles lol

I'm really looking forward to Episode 2.

Net Zero is unobtainable so why self destruct oneself for the unobtainable

Love it! When’s ep2?

My dream job ❤❤, Is this under the overhead linesman or craftsperson role?!!

Its a bit of a concern that our end is on an island, when sea levels are set to rise! ooops.

Why is nobody talking about the damage geoengineering is doing to the environment??? Millions of planes all over the world, spraying chemicals, metal, sulphur and blocking out the sun. Trapping gases and raising the temperature, maybe it's this experiment that is to blame for the problem...

I am unhappy to see that you believe that capturing energy from space and adding it to the earths energy system will be pursued. The earth is changing in climate due to, too much energy in the system so why would we want to add more unless we significantly burn less fossil fuels as a result.

Interesting to See how the Nuklear Power Plants that the UK is building fits in to the grid and the markets...

In 2021 UK total energy consumption was about 1500TWh, if we electrify everything (including heating, transport, industry etc) it would drop to approx 1000TWh. If that was all supplied by offshore wind and taking into account capacity factors that would be 285GW . So the UK needs most of that 300GW. 300GW by 2050 for the whole of Europe is a disaster, it's no where near enough and time is running out.

Without grid storage it's well past diminishing returns isn't it? Apparently in 2023 green energy was paid nearly 600 million when wind farms had to be turned off? This will only increase adding to ppl's bills. This added £30-40 to everyone's bills for STOPPED non usage energy?

I climbed a live one for fun this would be a great job to do, but i would never dare go that close to the cables if the cables were on

And now we can no longer afford to use electricity for industry we have outsourced a massive amount of production to China and India who are polluting the world with no emissions regulation whatsoever. Lost count how many new coal fired power stations China and India have built in the last couple of years, but it exeeds the number we had in total in Uk a few years ago. Where has it all gone so wrong ?

This is an excellent episode. I would like more technical information and answers: is there just one grid in Europe or are we connecting to each country’s grid? Why are there 2 connectors to France. Why did the Norwegians decide against a second connector. Will you do an episode on the impact of the Danish energy island?

25:15. A fine example of motor-normativity: 'London is an hour and half in that direction'. Presumably he means 'by car'. Distance would be a lot more useful. One might wish to travel in some other way, or indeed just have distance given in distance units.

How do they do the 'burying 1m' bit? It's easy enough dropping the cable off the back of the boat, but trenching it on the muddy seafloor sounds a bit tricky. Maybe if it's just mud all you have to do is vacuum up some silt, or aerate it so the cable sinks in? Or maybe it's just really soft and the cable sinks in anyway under its own weight?

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as a registered electrician, I loved the episode! cant wait for the second

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I worked on the construction of the isle of grain CNG mentioned on here.

Don't sweat about the XP computers. It is a very,very stable rock solid OS in use for decades. All the OS bugs were killed off many years ago. It runs on cool slow machines that run 24 /7 /365 without a hitch. This is industrial control software connected to actual machines no need for speed.

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Love that they have a Windows XP computer running in the background 😂. Very high tech!!

The first uk to France was much earlier than the 1980’s ! I was taught about the first one when I was at UNI in 1963. One of the reasons for using dc was the difficulty of synchronising the UK and Mainland Europe.