Support for Green Energy, Even Among Its Noisiest Champions Is, As One Might Suppose, Only Onionskin Thin
THOMAS J SHEPSTONE
Ed “Mad” Miliband, the UK’s Net Zero Nero, is as noisy as it gets when it comes to phony green energy, but as push comes to shove economically, the Brits are looking for alternatives. And, they are looking at natural gas because their support for net-zero onionskin thin.
The story comes from DNYUZ, a digital news platform that aggregates and republishes content from other sources and this article (original from Politico here) speaks volumes. Consider the following excerpts:
Tech giants must be allowed to burn more fossil fuels if the U.K. is to become a global AI leader, British ministers were told this summer.
The warning was raised at a meeting in late June between Technology Secretary Peter Kyle, Energy Secretary Ed Miliband and executives from leading U.S. tech firms.
The suggestion — that on-site gas fuel cells could provide an “interim measure” to get around lengthy waits for a connection to the electricity grid — exposes the tensions the U.K. faces as it tries to be both a climate leader and an “AI maker.”
Achieving the latter relies on rapidly increasing the number of energy-intensive data centers for AI on British soil…
Ministers were further told that “high wholesale electricity prices, long lead times for grid connections, and energy pricing are challenges to data center investment across the U.K.” at a second meeting in June, days after the government promised new measures to speed up grid connections in its Industrial Strategy.
A spokesperson for the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero said its plan for the U.K. to reach clean power by 2030 will enable the development of energy-intensive data centers, alongside work with regulator Ofgem and network companies “to reform the outdated connections process and speed up delivery of new infrastructure.”
…As countries race to adapt their electricity grids for the demands of AI, locating data centers close to new and existing gas facilities has been suggested as a quick way to access energy…
[A] recent report by the Tony Blair Institute warned that “bridging measures” will be needed to meet the U.K.’s short-term demand for AI infrastructure until adequate clean energy, including nuclear, is brought online.
It urged the government to permit developers to site data centers close to both existing gas plants and purpose-built “modular” gas fuel cells…
Gas pipeline operators are “actively pursuing” enquiries from data centers, the Future Energy Networks, which represents the U.K.’s gas transmission network, told The Times in April.
The U.K.’s National Energy Systems Operator (NESO) has said the U.K. will require up to 35GW of spare gas capacity even if the U.K. hits the government’s target for a clean power system by 2030.
Don’t you love it? The lure of economic development always trumps green energy as a cause. That’s because everyone knows the latter is phony, and a fantastical bit of virtue signaling among the elite, only made possible by real economic development and real economic security that affords such luxury class thinking.
The same thing has happened among Big Tech, of course, and it’s only a matter of time before we see an AI data center powered by coal with a few solar panels out to create a Potemkin Village effect. And, like the excuse offered by the UK energy planners, they will assure us it’s only temporary. Green energy support is onionskin thin.
SOURCE: Energy Security and Freedom
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BP Defies Ed Miliband to Reopen North Sea Oil Field
BP is reopening the Murlach North Sea oil field for at least ten more years, despite Ed Miliband’s best efforts to halt new fossil fuel projects. The Telegraph has the details.
The energy giant is reviving the Murlach field, which was declared uneconomic and taken out of use in 2004, has now become viable partly due to new technologies.
BP won agreement to reopen Murlach, 120 miles east of Aberdeen, under the previous government and has since been installing equipment, with production potentially restarting next month.
The milestone comes despite efforts by the Energy Secretary to bring an end to new fossil fuel production in the North Sea. Mr Miliband and his predecessors have almost doubled the taxation rate on oil and gas profits and banned the issuing of licences for new exploration and production.
BP said the Murlach field contained 20 million barrels of recoverable oil and 600 million cubic metres of gas – enough to keep it in production for 11 years. “Murlach is expected to produce around 20,000 barrels of oil and 17 million cubic feet of gas per day,” it said.
It means BP can partially reverse the decline in North Sea output, which has seen oil production fall from 96,000 barrels per day in 2020 to 70,000 last year. Gas production has fallen from 221m cubic feet a day to 197m. …
BP’s success at Murlach follows a similar story at Shell, which restarted production from its Penguins oil field north of Shetland earlier this year – despite Greenpeace protesters boarding its new production vessel.
The field went into production in 2003 but had to be shut down in 2021 when the Brent Charlie production platform was decommissioned. Production restarted this year with Shell expecting 45,000 barrels a day once in full flow.
Worth reading in full.
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