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willmathis.bsky.social • 82 days ago

UK wind farms are set to produce more power than coal and gas plants this year

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d-le-nen.bsky.social•82 days ago

https://bsky.app/profile/d-le-nen.bsky.social/post/3ldgvhbahzs23

muppetkeeper.bsky.social•82 days ago

New wind record yesterday

hough-transform.bsky.social•82 days ago

That's cool! But now it's only a matter of time before we start hearing complaints of "big wind" controlling the energy market. 😄

katieocean.bsky.social•82 days ago

@daisb.bsky.social 👆

marius1976.bsky.social•82 days ago

But without nuclear power plants UK will lose so badly, just like Germany.

willmathis.bsky.social•82 days ago

It has nuclear power and is building more. What’s your point?

stockfttp.bsky.social•81 days ago

Tbf Will that is technically true but the share is falling. 8 NPS on paper at decade start and all but 1 closes by Q2 '30 on present planning. HPC opens 30 base 31+ if late. HPC/SZB/SZC (late 30s) would still amount to less capacity than in the 2010s.

willmathis.bsky.social•81 days ago

That’s fair, but to equate the situation in the UK to Germany is very off. Germany shut off nukes for political reasons while the UK is keeping its plants as long as they can.

UK has struggled to build new plants, but not because politicians are ideologically opposed. Just opposed to paying maybe

stockfttp.bsky.social•81 days ago

Ger very diff; high degree of political consensus in GB (except perhaps 97-2003 & 2010-15) but building not so much. Lab didn't get anything close to FID in 13yrs; C's 1 but that pretty much tested the CFD to destruction and now we're about to test RAB 😉

marius1976.bsky.social•80 days ago

What is a RAB? 🤔

marius1976.bsky.social•82 days ago

If UK is building more nuclear power plants then this is really great. Because I thought that brits are going the same wrong (go green!) way as Germans do.

willmathis.bsky.social•82 days ago

Germany and the UK are completely different. The UK is currently building one large new nuclear plant, raising money to build another and extending the life of its existing plants. Nuclear is broadly popular in Britain with politicians and the public

marius1976.bsky.social•82 days ago

Good to hear that.

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