An Interesting Take on Green Energy

["Mark Marooth" <MMarooth@xxxxxxx>]

I used to work for Scottish & Southern Energy (Scottish Hydro as was)
and can
perhaps give you an interesting spin on green energy.

A number of the Dams operated by Hydro are in fact called pumped storage
systems.  I was told that Hydro would pump water up into the
dams at night using excess supply from the grid and would then run that
water
through the turbines during the day and charge the prevailing day rate to
supply the lecky back to the grid.

So, where do you think the cheap power comes from at night, again I was
told
principally from nuclear plants and the Scotland/England
Interconnector, meaning brown energy.

There is no doubt that SSE has a good green portfolio and is a
profitable/responsible company (Still a shareholder) but some things are
not
necessarily what they seem.



Mark