By: Peter Wren

Peter Wren — Fri, 10 Mar 2023 09:14:52 +0000

“smart meters giving price signals to customers,” Ah circumlocution It’s rationing by price. Surely that was something that smart meters were never going to be used for – according to all the full page adverts . The formal UK position (of the legislators, regulators, Agencies, dozens of net-zero NGOs, & industry bodies ) is that there will be more than sufficient electricity for green sources after 2035. And yet… the constant underlying theme is that we will have to restrict energy energy usage. My dissatisfaction with this “don’t tell the public” stealth approach is two-fold 1) that it leads to huge inefficiencies & wasted money: (e.g meter rollout should have been simply mandatory at replacement time) . And even the existence of the SEC itself as another layer of bureaucracy that adds cost
2) The embedded position that the people can’t be trusted with the complete picture of what’s likely to happen, and have to be led there by a gradual series of policy steps until it’s a fait accompli

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By: Peter Wren