ThomasHL

ThomasHL t1_jae2lou wrote

There are a couple of reasons. The first is most homes in the UK heat themselves with gas directly instead of electricity. So we still use a lot of gas.

The second thing was the 100% part was just for one day. The renewables in our grid are increasing but mostly at the expense of coal power plants, not gas.

And the final component is the UK grid system pays every electricity producer the price of the most expensive energy producer. If 1% of the grid is gas, 100% of the grid pays gas prices. Even on this one day, there was a gas power plant running as a back up (it just wasn't used).

That last one is part of why very few UK homes have electricity based heating systems. There will never be a time when electricity costs less than gas, so gas has been the cheaper option.

21

ThomasHL t1_iv08tdn wrote

They're also not an exclusive list of phases either - there's lot of other ways to grieve. So as a model it's not particularly great, being neither in order nor exclusive nor inclusive.

Which is unsurprising as they weren't even invented to explain grief, but rather coming to terms with a person's own death

14