""Doddgy" , just out of curiosity and not to be nosy, what is your background? You're obviously quite knowledgeable in the power industry.
For myself, I worked in coal and oil fired power plants, nuclear power plants for over ten years and was an electrical system power dispatcher in the last 15 years of my employment.
I had intended to write no more on this thread, but who could resist such an invitation?
My background? Well, it is odd. And parts of it are frankly unbelievable. For instance, for two years of my life I was a separate one-man Government Department in Whitehall...
My degree is in Medieval Literature and Philosophy, though my specialist subject is IT Security with, as our American friends would say, a 'major' in how to break things. Much of my working life I have spent, shall we say, associated with the intelligence services, though, now I come to think of it, there are few working sectors I have not been at least peripherally involved in. Regarding power distribution, I worked on the design of the British Energy power trading floor at Barnwood a couple of years ago, but I can make rude and objectionable comments from a position of having 'been there' about NHS hospital administration, F1 racing, several financial organisations, one legal organisation, the brewing industry and the BBC since then...
Very much a dodgy geezer, you will catch a glimpse of me hanging around most of the major disasters of the late 20th/early 21st centuries, usually hurrying off before any blame could be allocated. I have burnt my fingers on more 'nice little earners' than Arthur Daly, but I am particularly gratified that I have avoided being employed in any project that the last two administrations have dreamt up - there are some things that would sully even my reputation....