On 17/06/17 08:50, Chris Hogg wrote:
On Sat, 17 Jun 2017 06:57:45 +0100, Mike Tomlinson
wrote:


"UK's biggest power producer Drax is considering the conversion of its
remaining coal-fired power units to gas, instead of biomass power, as
originally planned"

"Management believe a gas-fired power conversion would allow the company
to qualify for 15-year contracts in the country's capacity market
auctions. As the government has already changed is stance on renewable
energy subsidies which had made biomass conversion attractive, this
would be a logical step for Drax"

http://www.powerengineeringint.com/a...mulls-coal-to-
gas-instead-of-biomass-conversion.html

This is the result of a lack of joined-up thinking in govt energy
policy, is it not?

Or perhaps it's the govt taking a second look at the cost of the
massive subsidies paid to renewable energy schemes, when there are
potentially cheaper ways of achieving the same CO2-emission targets,
such as natural gas from fracking, or even nuclear in the long term.

Indeed it was: after they had given ministerial *assurances* that Drax
would qualify, they then decided it wouldn't after all.

I can't remember when this happened but it was later Blair/Brown or
early coalition.




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