100% renewable electricity for the UK.

The theme for today’s meeting was ‘100% renewable electricity for the UK’

First we started with a personal message concerning the future of our Climate Crisis group.

Due to health issues I have decided to stop running this group. However, this will not be the end of the Climate Crisis group. Ian Hawker has kindly agreed to take over my role. He unfortunately could not be present today, but many of you will know Ian already. He has been at previous meetings and has done many talks within the U3A about Climate Change. Format and times of the meetings may change, no doubt for the better! I hope to still be present at future meetings for a while.

Next, following on from our last meeting where we looked at updating Electricity Grids esp. the so called reconductoring idea and 100% renewable electricity grids, we concentrated this time on developments specifically for the UK. As usual we watched and discussed 2 videos.

The first video looked at the idea of expanding the grid offshore…..

Ocean Electricity Grid. How do they do that? 14/4/24

The second video looked at what we could do to increase renewable energy generation quickly so we can have 100% wind and solar.

100% wind and solar is coming! 21/4/24

We also had an interesting discussion about heat pumps with several people sharing their experiences (sometimes after using a heat pump for over 10 years!) Their experiences were positive!

It was a lively meeting!

The Zoom link for this meeting was emailed to all Climate Crisis subscribers approx. 1 week before the meeting.