There is more than enough capacity on the National Grid for years to come.
This from the chief honcho himself CEO of the National Grid Graeme Cooper.
"Enough capacity exists
With the first of these, the energy element, the most demand for electricity we’ve had in recent years in the UK was for 62GW in 2002. Since then, due to improved energy efficiency such as the installation of
solar panels, the nation’s peak demand has fallen by roughly 16 per cent. Even if the impossible happened and we all switched to EVs overnight, we think demand would only increase by around 10 per cent. So we’d still be using less power as a nation than we did in 2002 and this is well within the range of manageable load fluctuation."
This statement was made before the worlds biggest offshore wind farm at Dogger Bank off the east coast of the UK comes online in 2026.
https://doggerbank.com/
Diesel will have it's own set of problems in the coming years (2025) as per the UK Gov's 'Decarbonisation of the UK's road transport plan'
https://www.gov.uk/government/public...onisation-plan
As for lorry manufacturers they're going to be in a world of hurt come 2025 because for the first time HGV's will be included in the fleet emission standards, The powers that be have already tested several makes of HGV & found them way off their emission targets to the point that they've changed the criteria for testing HGV's from "closed door lab tests" to actual everyday on road testing for emissions.
They're barely better than the old Euro 6 standard being 12% off the companies stated emissions.
The new Euro Cat 7 standards will be announced next month. Even though all new ICE vehicles will be banned by 2030 they still want to reduce vehicle pollution to the lowest feasible level in 2025.
https://www.transportenvironment.org...civil-society/
Come 2025 all HGV's will have to have 15% less emissions than they have today + the 12% they're already behind will need a miracle. They'll need to have 30% less emissions in 2030
Construction vehicles are also to be included for the first time in the new revised Euro 7 emissions in 2025.
The financial penalties are huge for going over the allotted emission limits. It cost the car manufacturers €billions for failing their fleet emission limits in 2020, Tesla alone made €2.2billion from Stellantis (Then FCA) for selling them emission credits.
"Financial penalties in case of non-compliance with the HGV CO2 targets. The level of the penalties is set to 4,250 euro per gCO2/tkm in 2025 and 6,800 euro per gCO2/tkm in 2030."
https://ec.europa.eu/clima/eu-action...ty-vehicles_en
Quite a few truck manufacturers are on the ball making electric lorries to lessen the financial blow come 2025, DAF, Volvo, Scania & Renault.
They're now rolling out Megawatt charging for HGV's with a Scania unit gulping down over 1 megawatt of juice
The new connector can handle up to 3,000 A at up to 1,250 V to charge heavy-duty vehicles quickly.
https://insideevs.com/news/592360/me...em-mcs-launch/