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The government has two consultations out at the moment that will reduce the transition costs in the policy portion of our bills. The first is to ch...
The AR7 Cfd contracts are worse... They are locking in high index CfD rates for offshore wind for even longer than previously, and eye watering rates ...
One persons view In sync with the Nesta figures showing the escalating balancing costs when the wind farms have to curtail and the CfD top up pa...
@old_scientist I also care about the environment like you and you make some very good points. It is hard to quantify what slowing down net zero i...
I agree @old_scientist, investing is most green stuff at the moment doesn't look great. We can only hope that the final CfD price gets closer to the...
Without CfD no one would build a wind farm in the UK, they would invest their capital elsewhere. Just like no company will build a major new factor...
Not read in detail but I thought this was interesting. Not read the actual report and I don't know how good the analysis is. Nonetheless interesting t...
Firstly I am not challenging your analysis. One of the main reasons for enticing the AI DCs to locate in the UK in AI Zones is to hopefully...
Currently we are a net importer of electricity, and one of the largest in Europe. We sit at 33.4 TWh in 2024 so would be second on the list below. ...
The failed energy supplier costs are in theory all off our bills now, but there are now regulatory costs involving the amount of capital Octopus etc h...
I haven't read in detail what was said. But Octopus, Eon, EDF are disagreeing with the government that electricity prices will fall as we move from ga...
98% failure of external wall insulation retrofits under government scheme....
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