National Grid to lose it's role in managing electricity supplies for mainland Britain.
Stock up with candles and get your portable generators while you can.
In message snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com, Chris Hogg snipped-for-privacy@privacy.net writes
Essentially, get rid of the naysayers, and instead employ the yeasayers
- even though the only experience the yeasayers have of electricity is possibly buying some AA batteries at Tescos.
Looks to me as if the plan is for most if not all of NGESO staff to move to the new body.
In which case, what's the point of it?
To put an ArtStudent in charge?
At least we'll know that it's all painted in the right colour.
Green!
Well somebody has to manage it as a whole surely? The situation they got into in America ballooned due to little areas doing their own thing, now its all going back the other way.
I often do wonder if people look at mistakes elsewhere to advise them on how to do things. Brian
This is why university education is so stupid. Teaches theory, but not common sense. Brian
But why reinvent the wheel? Brian
A bit like the Brexit shipping company with no ships, no harbour and no experience of maritime trade with contract T&Cs pinched from a takeaway.
Likely to be another consultants scheme for cutting overheads by getting rid of the most experienced operators and paying the rest less to do more. Fill in the gaps with apprentices - what could possibly go wrong?
Hasn't NG only recently separated off its ESO section (post the lightning+windmills+trains event a couple of years ago)?
Were they trying to head-off having the role removed from them by looking more independent, or was it all part of the plan?
Read the con doc? It includes a summary if you are of the Executive persuasion.
To allow more government interference to create an even bigger f*ck up than NG were prepared to let happen.
To disguise costs as taxes into a heavily subsidised massive infrastructure project which will be spun as 'creating green jobs'
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