On Friday, April 28, 2017 at 9:50:59 AM UTC+5:30, Recliner wrote:
wrote:
On Thursday, April 27, 2017 at 8:20:44 PM UTC+1, Roland Perry wrote:
In message , at
07:21:48 on Thu, 27 Apr 2017, remarked:

https://tfl.gov.uk/info-for/media/pr...l/tfl-drives-f
orward-18-million-electric-vehicle-scheme

I wonder what the National Grid thinks about these plans.
--
Roland Perry

The National Grid probably prefers not to think about them. The
pseudo-environmentalists who pretend to care about the environment
but who support anti-motorist measures that make air pollution much
worse will continue to assert that we should use less electricity!

Well, we are doing (slightly):

"Electricity generated in 2016 fell by 0.2 per cent from 339.1 TWh in 2015
to 338.6 TWh.

If they figures are for the UK as a whole, they show that the UK consumes 18 times less electricity per capita than the US, which seems strangely low.

If we assume that all of the UK - 65.14 million people - consumed only 339.1 TWh in 2015, that works out to 594* w per person; I've read that the figure for the US is 11,000 w per person, which is about 18 times higher.

* 339.1e12/65.14e6/365/24 = 594

The UK’s primary energy demand is projected to fall by a total of 6% over
the next 10 years, before rising to 2% above current levels by the end of
2035."

https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/599539/Updated_energy_and_emissions_projections_2016.pdf