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'reducing base load demand'

Who is putting their hand up for their street lights to be switched off? For their hospital to run expensive co-generation when there isn't enough supply or it becomes to expensive? A lot of these statements are made by groups which just pretend that you can cut down a lot of energy and that's how they make their sums work. The BZE group do this with their calculations and it's pretty unrealistic.

The problem I have with all of these plans is that they drastically inflate the cost of energy for no real reason apart from dislike of certain generation types.