Charlie Weston

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1,990 appearances 20 recordings 3 series first heard May 2026 last heard 2 Sep

Charlie Weston’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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She's a Cork woman.

She's an academic in Manchester University, University of Manchester, Chair of Net Zero Infrastructure.

And she scratched her head to try and remember.

There was something maybe once in the 70s, but it's very unusual.

The problem here, David, is the wind is just not blowing.

So wind is not helping us at all.

It's very, very calm.

You have a heat wave, which is leading to...

People using, as you say, air conditioning.

I went into the office yesterday and my joke was, I'm only here for the air conditioning, you know.

One way to get me into the office.

My wife was in Woody's yesterday and they had sold out of cooling fans, you know, and fans of all kinds.

So there's huge demand on the system and there's a whole load of schedule and maintenance going on, which is normal John Summer.

If you're going to do maintenance, you would do it at a time when usually there's low demand.

So that's what's happened.

All of this means that if there's low wind output,

Solar tends to be not great when it's very, very hot.

The rising panel heat reduces efficiency, is what I'm told.

And so you get all this combination, then we have a very, very tight situation at the moment.

So you get the highly unusual situation where the system is struggling to meet demand at the moment for electricity.

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