Dr. Mark Barrett at UCL has done work that suggests that coupled with a grid connection with France and beefed up energy storage, Britain could provide 95% of its electricity from renewables this way.
Intermittently shutting down hot water heaters as grid peaks can balance power loads
Dr. Mark Barrett has documents online for those curious to read more:
http://www.bartlett.ucl.ac.uk/markbarrett/Energy/UKEnergy/EnergyUK.htm
Posted by: Daniel Haran on June 22, 2009 8:33 PM
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