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UK power crisis – entirely the fault of regulators and ministers

EV Info

Or in other words we are reliant on Putin to keep the light on and at his mercy on the cost of the gas. Right now, production is low in Russia, so the cost has increased. The unit cost of Gas in the UK is 4 times the price of US Gas. – Centrica closed the vast Rough storage facility in 2017 prompting concerns about gas pricing.

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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. At current transportation battery prices, that is well beyond the cost of spinning reserve.

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