I have an idea. Connect all the BEVs to the Grid and they can keep it running on low wing/sun days. (Yes: it is a suggestion made by others!)
At least a couple of energy suppliers pushing V2G
So they want to wear your electric car battery out instead of having a sensible energy mix that is 'sustainable' even in cold weather with no wind and allows for charging of electric vehicles, at the moment despite the huge number of fans on sticks we have cluttering up our countryside and sea we cannot rely on them for anything, if we could control the weather we may stand a chance, but we can't and because of pie in the sky politicians we are at the mercy of it - just like in the stone age - but I suppose the clueless politicians see that as progress...
This is what happens when you try to ban the use of fossil fuels but have nothing to replace them.
I want to avoid using fossil fuels and damaging the environment.
Until we get decent stable electricity supply my main concern is the economy not the environment.... people may begin to care less about the environment when we start to get rolling blackouts and the lights and heating pack up.
And what happens when the fossil fuels run out or become so scarce that people are fighting over them and we have nothing to replace them with?
Surely it is more sensible to develop renewables and look for ways to store the energy to even out supply and demand.
The UK is well off for sources of renewables - hydro, wind, wave and tidal (or at least Scotland is). Unfortunately the UK government has squandered most of the fossil fuels.
I would agree that we are as yet unable to run exclusively on renewables without backup and the politicians' ideas to do so are pie in the sky. There is unlikely to be one solution but a combination of many.