Onshore Wind Generation costs now at 3.3 cent per kw/h or less.

[albion]

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/...et-on-wind-farms-warn-energy-groups-kht905kqm

No complaints from their 2nd home supporters then!

 

[albion]

https://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/new...-news/plug-being-pulled-uks-first-7582476.amp
The first bit of outrage over the absurdity of it.
https://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/new...-news/plug-being-pulled-uks-first-7582476.amp

Reach is interesting, it being the biggest local news. It seems to have a direct link to government in that, almost daily, there is something about the DWP, which seems likely to have been written by the DWP themselves.

With AI articles now in the news, maybe this was AI all along.
The DWP have thousands of rules so an AI retrieval on any of the rules allows for a lifetime of 'stories'.
Who would have thought that journalists are now clerks?

Edit - https://www.reachplc.com/news/2022/reach-launches-ai-powered-audience-engagement-tool
No doubt that is a marketing off-shoot of their story tool.

 

[albion]

Costs have mainly increased over the last year. Onshore wind niw looks yo be about 4 per kw/h and offshore 8c.

So offshore has likely improved to be only double that of the, still looking banned, onshore wind.
https://about.bnef.com/blog/2h-2022-levelized-cost-of-electricity-update/

 

[albion]

https://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money...t-power-firms-repair-broken-smart-meters.html

3 million junk items. No wonder inflation is so high when costs such as offshore wind farms and junk smart metres are added to our bills.

 

[albion]

https://amp.theguardian.com/environ...-onshore-wind-turbines-last-year-than-england
'The ban on onshore wind, which is the cheapest source of electricity, is estimated to have cost UK billpayers £800m over the past winter'

It is probably only £800 million because of the way energy companies are remunerated.

 

[Milzy]

We need brand new nuclear power plants. Unlimited safe cheap electricity for everyone. We can use electricity for hot water then too & cook with electric. Dramatically reduce gas to 0. Renewables will go along side it nicely.

 

[Tanis8472]

That's what they said in the 50's isn't it. Didn't happen 😏

 

[albion]

https://amp.theguardian.com/busines...-years-from-building-enough-onshore-windfarms
A 4700 wait unless change of government happens.

Corruption wins for now.

 

[albion]

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2023/06/25/britain-offshore-wind-industry-at-risk/

Offshore costs are 'spiralling says foreign agent, the Telegraph. Compared to onshore, the economics were always barking, the stupidity of it all killing UK business.

 

[albion]

https://nation.cymru/news/charity-m...out-misleading-claims-made-by-energy-company/

Charity seems very conservative, preferring the massive surcharge of offshore wind.

 

[albion]

https://amp.theguardian.com/environ...ng-point-as-funding-crisis-threatens-industry

I keep noticing lots of lies in the media on how cheap offshore wind is.
Reality is certainly different.

 

[albion]

https://www.shetnews.co.uk/2023/08/...ow-installed-at-viking-energy-wind-farm-site/

That's Scotland near covered. Enough for 500,000 homes from just one relatively cheap windfarm.

 

[albion]

The Trollgraph has the headline 'The real costs of wind power prove the sums don’t add up' referring to offshore wind.

In a way they are right. Our electricity costs are absurdly high due to the corrupt ban on 'less than half the price'onshore wind.
Right wing media get much, if not most, of the blame for that.

 

[albion]

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/uk-energy-bill-amendment-b2404249.html

Weird. Ban on solar for prime farmland to cost us x.
Where are the real figures for that near 10 years of onshore wind ban?

 

[albion]

Offshore wind projects are closing down. Inflation and interest rates the cause

Whether this means more onshore am unsure, the same being to whether it reduces the barkingly mad offshore costs on all our bills.