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So is this a lie then?
A spokesperson for the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero said: “It is categorically untrue that the UK only has access to two days of gas supply. We have a diverse energy mix and are confident in our security of supply.
That’s weaseling.
They have access to diverse supply. The reserves in hand are a different topic.
Those are not mutually exclusive statements. One talks about gas reserves actually stored right now. If all gas supply gets cut off UK will run out of gas in 2 days. If gas supply drops they only have these reserves to help them offset this while they look for new sources.
The spokesperson says they have access to more supplies. This can mean they have ships and pipelines delivering them more gas all the time and that they have those supplies secured for more than two days. He says that sources this gas are diverse and that they are not worried about this being disrupted.
Maximum capacity is 12 days of gas
Gas is hard to store so reserves are small. Times like this with price increases is exactly when you lower reserves to create temporary supply to depress price inflation. When prices are better, or as winter approaches, you fill the reserves back up.
Isn't it more that the national gas storage was sold off/ privatised, and the private operators decided it's more profitable to have less storage?
UK doing UK things.
Sure glad we let the Nimby's dictate infrastructure
Who is nimby?
People who oppose building anything.
It's a US term vastly abused by YIMBY/Developer simps who want a libertarian approach to house construction, to cover everyone from environmentalist who don't want giant AI datacenters built nextdoor to them to people who think a % of newly built homes should be affordable.
Yeah TrueNIMBYs™ exist but the vast majority of "NIMBYs" are people with legitimate concerns that could be addressed if developers made slightly less money on their project.
I think it’s the acronym for “not in my backyard”.
Basically residents that oppose things that are needed for the community, like certain infrastructure, because it affects their property values or changes their neighborhood but aren’t opposed to it elsewhere.
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Acronym for Not In My Back Yard
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nimby = Not in my backyard
He’s talking about people who oppose all change, especially new wind and solar power installations.
I wouldn't say "especially" renewable electricity. The magnitude of that NIMBYism pales in comparison to opposing zoning dense enough to support walking, biking and transit (which is the far bigger contributor to "petroleum supplies cut off" being a problem).
The UK doesn't use US style zoning though.
And zoning on both sides of the Atlantic has very little to do with the under supply of housing.
The reality is private markets are really bad at building affordable homes, as It's more profitable to build few homes and what does get built is built to rent out, with a hefty chunk of those rents used to inflate house prices further.