Britain’s leaky power cables add £100 on bills as UK wastes as much energy as it imports

This is also a major issue for tackling climate change, as according to the International Energy Agency, globally losses in grids resulted in around 1 gigatonne of carbon dioxide emissions in 2018.

Speaking to Express.co.uk, Enertechnos CEO Dominic Quennell warned that because there were a lot of inefficiencies in the UK’s cabling, it was “leading to unnecessary losses in energy that’s been generated before it gets to the point of consumption”.

To tackle this problem, the IEA highlighted the need to have more efficient power lines. As a result, Mr Quennel estimated: “It’s never going to happen, but if the whole world were using our kind of cable, according to the IEA, we can probably reduce those losses by about 40 percent.

“We lose as much in a year in the grid as we import from outside, so everything that we import gets lost. It’s a colossal amount of energy.”

Article source: https://www.express.co.uk/news/science/1741274/britiain-leaky-power-cables-energy-bills-100-uk-wastes-imports-enertechnos