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So let’s say that there’s a–like there was in Texas, there was a peak power demand, and the power demand, because the grid lacked the ability to buffer the power, they had to shut down power,” Musk explained. “There’s no powerstorage. No good point on powerstorage.
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No Storage. Most countries regards Gas as strategic and store plenty of the stuff to cover supply disruptions. OfGem started to do this well and we now have an abundance of retailers you can select as your powercompany. Then we, actually Terresa May, fell for a socialist pitch from Ed Miliband to cap power prices.
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