Many commenters here on The BFD have raised valid questions following the release of the recent Climate Change Commission report. This report suggests that the way forward for New Zealand is for everyone to switch to electric vehicles and for all gas cooking, gas water heating and gas home heating to be replaced with electricity.
Naturally, those with an IQ above 26 have asked, “Where does all this extra electricity come from?”
Clearly not from the 4.5 wind farms per year that Dr Megan Woods suggested be built during the last Labour three “years of neglect”.
Everyone, other than the brain dead ideologues who inhabit the halls of power, understands that there is, currently, not enough electricity generation capacity in New Zealand to fuel this artificially created extra demand. They also know that wind farms and solar panels are not the answer as they are intermittent and unreliable sources of electricity.
Add in all the industrial processes that are efficiently run on gas (or even coal) and convert them to inefficiently generated electrical heat.
And don’t forget the extra load on the electrical transmission system and the local street-level power grid which cannot cope with everyone on the street charging an electric vehicle at the same time as the evening cooking/heating demand kicks in.
So what’s to be done?
Simple – follow the UK example: Make sure everyone is on a smart meter and then let the power generators declare an emergency (probably a real climate emergency) so that they can turn off power to all the domestic users.
Over in the UK, the Government is considering giving energy networks the power to switch off a household’s energy supply without warning or compensation for those affected.
They have proposed a series of ‘modifications’ to the Smart Energy Code and hope to pass these changes into law by next spring.
These changes include giving networks the right to decide when they consider the grid to be in a state of ’emergency’ and the power to switch off high usage electrical devices such as electric vehicle chargers and central heating systems in UK homes.
Once this is passed, these ‘modifications’ to the law would mean that electric vehicle owners could plug in at the end of the day and wake up without sufficient charge to travel the next morning.
And they can’t stay home where it is snug and warm as they had no central heating overnight anyway. (Oh, and parts of the Thames froze over this week for the first time in 63 years.)
So, dear friend, stock up on onesies and blankets to keep warm, or stay warm by peddling your exerbike connected to a generator to charge the car.
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