On Thu, 01 Mar 2018 10:38:21 +0000, Tim Streater
wrote:

In article , Robin
wrote:

On 01/03/2018 10:11, The Other Mike wrote:


Without the wind generation we'd have been a long way up that iced over creek
called **** for most of this week.


If we didn't have wind generation the vast sums spent subsidising it
could have been spent on other sources - preferably ones which are not
intermittent.

Such as nukes, f'rinstance, which even at £90-odd per MWh look cheap
compared to any form of renewable.

It could have been *MINUS* £6/MWh
https://www.nao.org.uk/wp-content/up...ey-Point-C.pdf
Figure 20

Instead we have the Burbo Bank Extension
https://lowcarboncontracts.uk/cfds/burbo
£161.71/MWh

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