EDF, the French developer responsible for the project, is demanding more money from the UK in order to fulfill the contract.
You could install solar panels on five million homes for that amount of money.
The UK doesn’t have great solar energy potential because of the high latitude and general lack of sun. Wind is much more practical in this country however like solar it provides it’s a non-stable energy source. To have a stable energy grid you ideally want a mix of stable and non-stable sources or non-stable sources and large battery storage facilities.
Weird how anything that can possibly reduce fossil fuel usage is always too expensive, yet building pipelines, and north sea oil platforms, and shipping oil all over the world is free or the cost is not worth talking about.
Weird how anything that can possibly reduce fossil fuel usage is always too expensive
That’s not true. Wind and solar are often cheaper than fossil fuels and the prices are still going down.
Sure but they can’t replace fossil fuels. Every single renewable energy scheme that a government invests int has Natural Gas plants that are running 24/7 to handle peak demand and smooth out the supply curve of solar/wind.
Either they run to smooth out the curve OR they run 24/7. Not both.
They can’t be kept on cold standby, so they aren’t running at 100% capacity 24/7, but they do have to run.
