I have to wonder how much pressure the electricity network will be under with all the extra people relying on it.
I’m suddenly having flashbacks to the 90s when that gas plant explosion happened. Two weeks of heating up water in a barrel and having baths.
With electricity the sole source of energy, any critical failure means the entire state is a bit fucked, unless we can rely from power from other states as a backup. But we’d have to make sure those states have sufficient power to export and the right transmission infrastructure to support it.
I’d love to say it’s all sweet, but given the drama last year with load shedding, I just hope they’ve thought this through.
By the way I’m not advocating the continued use of dirty fossil fuels, but I would like the transition to different mixes of energy sources managed competently.
It’s just new builds, they’re not forcing people to get rid of their existing connections. It should be easy to phase in, and hopefully batteries and the like come down in price.
I have to wonder how much pressure the electricity network will be under with all the extra people relying on it.
I’m suddenly having flashbacks to the 90s when that gas plant explosion happened. Two weeks of heating up water in a barrel and having baths.
With electricity the sole source of energy, any critical failure means the entire state is a bit fucked, unless we can rely from power from other states as a backup. But we’d have to make sure those states have sufficient power to export and the right transmission infrastructure to support it.
I’d love to say it’s all sweet, but given the drama last year with load shedding, I just hope they’ve thought this through.
By the way I’m not advocating the continued use of dirty fossil fuels, but I would like the transition to different mixes of energy sources managed competently.
It’s just new builds, they’re not forcing people to get rid of their existing connections. It should be easy to phase in, and hopefully batteries and the like come down in price.
I thought it was the installation of new gas appliances in existing buildings as well, but I may have misunderstood.
It’s literally the title of this thread.
How would you like me to respond that? If you want to be a b*tch, Reddit is still very much operational.