No I don’t believe what we are being told.
I find it impossible to believe demand hasn’t increased.
Also farcical that we can’t even meet our own demand here in the U.K.
(That’s before we start installing electric charge points in each home)
You do realise it’s like cooking Christmas dinner all night charging an electric car?
Imagine that for the entire street.
totally blows the entire thing out of the water.
EU regs on power consumption of products has done as much for reducing emissions as renewables. Anyone remember the people kicking off over hoovers and light bulbs etc.? Well there are studies out there that suggests it worked and has significantly lowered demand across the EU. It’s not all about sorting out the supply but reducing demand is well in the scope of possibility and actually happening.
You need to think about the second part again. Not every car needs to be charged from empty every day. The average U.K. mileage is down to something like 8500 miles or under 25/day. That’s less than an 8kwh per day of additional use per vehicle. It’s less than 6 for an efficient car from Tesla or Hyundai.
The national grid as models the effect of transitioning all vehicles to electric and determines they have sufficient capacity already (just not between 4pm and 8 pm). The problem is managing demand, time of use tariffs and ‘smart’ chargers/meters are the solution and they already exist.
I still don’t know why you are sceptical
of the renewables numbers. The U.K. has invested and built heavily in the sector at the same time as turning off all the coal power stations and filled any gaps with gas which is much cleaner than the solid fuel alternatives.