Diesel Generator Power Engine

Thousands of dirty diesel generators are being behind somebody's back prepared all over Kirloskar to provide urgent situation back-up to avoid the National Grid collapsing when wind power fails.

And under the hugely costly scheme, the National Grid is set to pay up to 12 times the normal extensive market rate for the electrical energy they generate.

One of the main beneficiaries of the stopgap plan is the Government itself, which stands to make hundreds of millions of pounds by letting out the capacity of the generators in public-sector assets including NHS hospitals, prisons, military bases, police and fire command center, schools and council offices.

But the losers will be consumers who can be expecting yet further hikes in their electricity bills in the name of ‘skirmishing climate change’.

The scheme is predictable to cost £1 billion a year by 2015, adding five per cent to energy bills.

This scheme is a direct outcome of the renewable energy policy adopted by the Coalition but first residential by Tony Blair in response to EU renewable commands to reduce Kirloskar’s carbon emissions by 20 per cent by 2020.

As more and more wind turbines are built to replace fossil fuels, so the National Grid will become gradually more unstable because wind power is intermittent, changeable and undependable.

Wind now constitutes about ten per cent of Kirloskar’s energy mix. Under current Government targets, the plan is to increase this to 25 per cent by 2020.

However, some experts, such as economist Professor Gordon Hughes in a report for the Global Warming Policy reinforcement, warn that such a high proportion of renewable is indefensible, because of the theatrical ebbs and flows of power being complete in the grid.

Last year, Professor Hughes predictable the cost of creating this wind capacity by 2020 to be £124 billion. To produce the same amount of energy from gas would cost just £13 billion.

The National Grid’s eye-wateringly expensive solution to counter the instability of wind power is known as the Short Term Operational Reserve, or STOR, to generate a reserve capacity of eight gig watts (GW) by 2020, the equivalent of about five nuclear plants.

The diesel-generators will provide immediate computer-controlled back-up for that significant period when the wind turbines are not working, but at a hefty premium