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UK power crisis – entirely the fault of regulators and ministers

EV Info

Why, simple the US embraced Fracking to produce bountifully supplies of cheap gas. Centrica closed the vast Rough storage facility in 2017 prompting concerns about gas pricing. We also need more power storage in the form of batteries and other technologies to store power when the sun shines and the wind blows.

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Electric Cars and a Smarter Grid - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Asked when there might be one million electric vehicles on the road that could also feed their battery capacity back into the grid in a two-way exchange, the panelists generally said between 2017 and 2020. Wind, solar and nuclear could easily change our electrical sources.

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