17 November

To those who like ‘when the sun doesn’t shine and the wind doesn’t blow’ as an argument against renewable energy, it’s worth remembering that off-peak power was invented decades ago because people *weren’t* using power overnight. They were asleep. And generators needed them to, to keep coal plants running (you can’t switch them off overnight). Off-peak has now shifted to the middle of the day. Off-peak ‘baseload’ generation at night will disappear. No big dinosaur generators you have to keep running 24 hours a day. The surest sign you’re talking to an idiot is if they say we need ‘baseload’ power.