It’s a very cool idea - but it doesn’t solve the spring/neap cycle, and so the baseline power would be a couple of GW at an absolute maximum (guessing), and you’d have to build them all around the UK… (View Post)

Leave it to the market to decide unless there is a national security issue. It’s all very complicated too - we need our resident O&G expert but you can only pick and choose which bits to extract … (View Post)

What's mad is that even accepting most of our energy will be exported south of the border, something like 40% in the Highlands was lost to curtailment. We are turning turbines off even while the… (View Post)

The fundamental flaw with that table is it compares the marginal cost of gas with the total cost of renewables. A like-for-like comparison would be to drop (almost) all the CfD costs from renewables,… (View Post)

It's great having people in the know like ydoethur and Richard_Tyndall on PB - but that doesn't mean you should take what they say as gospel. That's not to accuse them of lying - just … (View Post)