In the latest renewable energy auction in the UK, the cost of offshore wind was a quarter of the cost of gas-fired thermal generation.
In addition, 2.2 gigawatts of new solar capacity also won contracts at an average £55 per MWh and 0.9 GW of new onshore wind was bid in at £50 per MWh.estimates the new renewable energy from this year’s auction will generate 42 terawatt-hours of electricity per year, which will be enough to meet around 13% of current UK demand.estimate electricity from these new renewable sources will save consumers an estimated £1.
Kingsmill Bond, a longtime City of London energy analyst now working for the Rocky Mountain Institute, tells Bill McKibben the numbers are the best possible news for a continent scared by Vladimir Putin: “We just do all this stuff and do it a bit faster, and we won’t need Russian gas. It is really not that hard. You don’t need to go cap in hand to foreign dictators to ask for more gas. Just change your own policy regime to bring these technologies online quicker.
Easier said than done. Many of the UK leaders vying to replace Boris The Clown as prime minister are promising to transition away from the country’s embrace of clean renewable energy and restart fracking in the UK to unlock even more methane production. Clearly Johnson is not the only cuckoo clock in the UK government.from low carbon sources by 2030 and to fully decarbonize the grid by 2035.
Thermal generation is a leading factor in making the Earth hotter and hotter. Advocating for more of it is extremely shortsighted bordering on suicidal. And yet, reactionaries everywhere are embracing thermal generation because if it was good enough for their grandparents, it’s good enough for them. The great leveling factor is price. It’s hard to cling to something when it cost 4 times as much as the alternative. In the final analysis, economics may be the only tool that can offset ideology.
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