Cheaper electricity bills on the Way for Scotland?

[ProDave]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cp91md1lj92o

 

Areas with more supply than demand (most of Scotland, certainly the Highlands) could get cheaper electricity pricing.

 

About time, for a long time we have been paying more, in spite of so much renewable generation here.

[saveasteading]

Moray has yet more power as of this week, none of it needed locally. Nearly all being sent Spouth. There should be a meter or 2 at some point between there and London.

"It's Scotlands wind".

 

Logically there is slightly less wind reaching the land.

 

news item.:

 

Moray West in the Moray Firth has 60 turbines each standing 257m (843ft) above the surface of the sea, making them the tallest turbines to be installed in UK waters according to the operator. 

 

 

Ocean Winds, the consortium operating the wind farm, said it would have capacity to generate up 882MW of electricity - enough power for 1.3 million households.

Edited 8 hours ago by saveasteading

[JohnMo]

Don't think I will hold my breath for the change to actually happen.

[saveasteading]

It's a good thing. So much power available and so much better ecologically.  

 

But I do think it is a local resource and local people should be charged the real cost, and not the price based on gas.

 

 

[SteamyTea]

Why would a local generator sell at a lower rate to locals when they can supply at a higher rate nationally.

It is the same arguement with natural gas. 

[ProDave]

7 minutes ago, SteamyTea said:

Why would a local generator sell at a lower rate to locals when they can supply at a higher rate nationally.

It is the same arguement with natural gas. 

I would settle for not being charged extra.  At the moment. we in "remote" parts are charged MORE for our electricity due to distribution costs.  Back in the day when electricity came from a small number of big power stations and there were none of those up here, then you could just about follow the thought process that they had to build lots of long high voltage pylons to get the electricity to us.

 

But NOW more is generated here than we can possibly use and they are building more pylons to transport the power south.  So at the very least charge the cost of that to the users in the south and reduce our charge for being "remote"

[SteamyTea]

49 minutes ago, ProDave said:

would settle for not being charged extra.  At the moment. we in "remote" parts are charged MORE for our electricity due to distribution costs

Same down here.

Not as if the CCTV at Plymouth is that far away.

 

Think it was more to do with local infrastructure, rather than the bulk transport if power, which is very cheap.

 

We did get a 5p/litre reduction on transport fuel 'because we are so far away from a depot', but that vanished during COVID when fuel dropped to a quid a litre.

The fuel depot is in Plymouth. So only about 80 miles away.

Edited 5 hours ago by SteamyTea

[ProDave]

1 hour ago, SteamyTea said:

The fuel depot is in Plymouth. So only about 80 miles away.

Since Grangemouth stopped as a refinery, our fuel now must come from somewhere in England.  That is 300 miles or probably more to the nearest refinery to get our fuel.

[SteamyTea]

1 minute ago, ProDave said:

refinery

You may well find that there are still terminals and depots though.

A lot of fuel is delivered by underground pipework.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UK_oil_pipeline_network

 

Why I never got disturbed by fuel trucks much when I lived near Buncefield.  Eventhough it was a fuel truck that was involved in the explosion.