Electrical Industrilisation of the North and East of Scotland

[GarethM]

So you want Scotland to keep and use all the energy, whilst we below the border actually prop up your electric network ?.

 

You need what's known as base load to actually use the "renewable", which if memory serves is mostly produced outside of Scotland.

[Steven P]

I'm trying to work out the problem here.

Is it the power lines themselves, as mentioned above they are less disruptive then burying cables, cheaper, quicker and lets us get power from where it is produced to where it is needed.

Is it the substations? Relativly small unless you live next to them but necessary - without them the power lines would need to be a lot bigger and multiple lines all parallel.

Is it that one part of the UK can generate green electricty and another can't so they want to hold onto it all, bering in mind the envirmonental issues if the rest of the UK was to then rely on gas, coal or nuclear - this will have a far greater impact

 

Sorry to say but if we want to stop ou reliance on Russian oil then we need to upgrade the UK electricity infrastructure to generate electricity where we can and deliver it to where we need it, and for that we need pylons, subsea cabes, substations, windmills, solar farms and hydro plants.

 

Or we can turn off the Russian oil, put us all on 60A fuses in the house (we usually have 100A) - no shower and making toast in the morning, and defenitely no fast charging electric cars (which we will all be getting by the way), oh and when yuor boiler packs up - it will be electric one then to give you a 3 way choice - tast and cup of tea, shower or heating in the morning!