Greg Jackson
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647 appearances
38 recordings
2 series
first heard May 2025
last heard 20 Sep
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And then you get consequences like this.
Yeah, and essentially, by the way, that is what some grids have.
You get paid for helping, for example, sort out frequency issues.
And, you know, there was an interesting thing we had in the UK where we've got this technology platform, Kraken, that drives Octopus, but manages... I mean, by the way, to give an idea about the amount of data in the modern grid, today, in the UK alone...
Kraken processes 300,000 rows of data per second.
That is 30 times more than Visa, the payment network, globally.
And so energy is very rapidly moving from a world where you have very little of this kind of real-time data to a world that is astonishingly data-centric.
And that's the way in which you can sort of manage a lot of problems we're talking about.
You can manage the physical problems that would help reduce the risk of something as happened in Spain and Portugal.
But it's also how you deal with the economic problems that Tony Blair rightly highlights.
The biggest offshore wind farm in the UK is paid to turn off 71% of the time it could be operating.
Now, what that means is because we don't have a dynamic way of managing to use the electricity that's available in a renewable world when it's available.
The kind of theoretical, the sticker price for electricity from that is about seven or eight pence a kilowatt hour.
But the effective price per unit delivered is more like 27 or 28 pence.
Right, because it's turned off two-thirds of the time, essentially.
Yeah, and it's getting paid to be turned off.
So not only have you got an idle asset, you're literally paying for the units you didn't get.
And then you have to pay someone else to generate them.
We're at a stage in the energy transition when a lot of the kind of rigidities of the old world are causing the physical problems you describe, in this case, the Iberian Peninsula,
and also the economic problems that Tony highlights, Tony Blair.
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