Kezo, as it stands power companies are paid millions£ to switch off their wind farms at night as there is little demand for the power generated. If we can convince ev drivers to :- a) Charge their cars at night to use this cheap energy (and save millions being paid to suppliers for doing nothing) and b) Get EV drivers to share some of the energy stored in their cars on a daily basis. Then the need to build nuclear plants and use gas fired power stations will be reduced. So in essence if we use what we have sensibly things, in the next decade, will be fine. Scotland will be a powerhouse in this move to green energy and increased supply, already providing 25% of the UKs electricity just now and this is set to rise substantially over the next 10 years.
Not disagreeing with you @Brydo, but surly it would make more sense for homeowners to charge over night with x% of turbines operating. Or even build large battery stations rather than other sources to harness the power keeping the turbines running instead of paying suppliers to shut them down over night.
I don’t agree that EV owners could be charged at an higher unit rate plus taxes than their standard domestic tariff. We will have to wait and see what happens here.
My own opinion tidal power is much more beneficial than wind turbines, as there will always be a tide. With wind turbines what happens when the wind dont blow to a great extent. Probably not a case in Scotland though 🙂