There’s an argument that gas peaker plants are useful, if only to shut the “what if it’s cloudy and there’s no wind” dickheads up, but renewables should come first.
That might be an argument if you are sane and actually building up renewables and storage.
But for a government that spends its time sabotaging renewables and blocking storage (in fact the whole definition of energy security and why gas peakers are the only option was written directly by an energy company for their corrupt puppet of a minister) it is just a pretense.
There’s an argument that gas peaker plants are useful, if only to shut the “what if it’s cloudy and there’s no wind” dickheads up, but renewables should come first.
That might be an argument if you are sane and actually building up renewables and storage.
But for a government that spends its time sabotaging renewables and blocking storage (in fact the whole definition of energy security and why gas peakers are the only option was written directly by an energy company for their corrupt puppet of a minister) it is just a pretense.
And batteries second.
Absolutely.