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Scalextrix
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RE: Electricity price predictions

LOL To be fair, Reform de la Mancha "policy" if it can really be called that, seems to change almost weekly (keeps them in the news cycle). As such...

3 days ago
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@jeff to be honest I'd forgotten that they adjust for the quarterly updates, so that's good news. I don't know how they run Tracker, but I would thi...

5 days ago
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@jeff I'm on Octopus Tracker, recent price range has been 12.44 to 26.45p/kWh. I suppose the average rate has been around 21.5p. If price cap gets ...

5 days ago
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RE: Electricity price predictions

This was the original form of subsidy for renewables that ran from 2002-2017, it's much more generous than CfD (because renewables were much more expe...

5 days ago
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I found the statement in the budget "red book" that Nesta would be referring to: "2.6 The government is committed to doing more to reduce electricit...

6 days ago
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From Nesta; Agrees generally with other articles, however notes an option to move the 25% of RO to gas. Remains to be seen if that is done. Al...

6 days ago
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@marzipan71 you may find that the supplier is buying direct from an energy generator, a type of contract called a Power Purchase Agreement, which is m...

1 week ago
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@jeff I don't know about the costs, but I've heard with the global glut of oil production the North Sea reserves are fairly uneconomic to extract at t...

1 week ago
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@batpred I think the real issue being solved with CfDs is to give investors certainty, but it's more to do with competitive ROI than planning. You c...

1 week ago
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@toodles it's like the saying goes: In theory, theory and practice are the same; In practice, they are different.   Im certain sodium-ion...

1 week ago
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I agree and that makes sense, but if our grid usage has reduced from ~36 GW to ~30GW, dont we have ~6GW of existing infrastructure going spare already...

1 week ago
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I think what's interesting is that the expected cost of wholesale electric will drop, but due to infrastructure costs, prices will rise, this is an in...

1 week ago
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