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Offshore Wind Power Cheaper Than New Nuclear

posted by Fnord666 on Tuesday September 12 2017, @02:11PM   
from the and-less-radioactive dept.

Phoenix666 writes:

Energy from offshore wind in the UK will be cheaper than electricity from new nuclear power for the first time.

The cost of subsidies for new offshore wind farms has halved since the last 2015 auction for clean energy projects

Two firms said they were willing to build offshore wind farms for a subsidy of £57.50 per megawatt hour for 2022-23.

This compares with the new Hinkley Point C nuclear plant securing subsidies of £92.50 per megawatt hour.

Nuclear firms said the UK still needed a mix of low-carbon energy, especially for when wind power was not available.

Both nuclear and wind receive subsidies, but for the first time wind is coming to market with less, so providing the same electricity with less cost to the public than nuclear.

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• Re:Phoenix666 should be ashamed of himself Re:Phoenix666 should be ashamed of himself (Score: 3, Informative) by FatPhil on Wednesday September 13 2017, @09:18AM (2 children)

  by FatPhil (863) <reversethis-{if.fdsa} {ta} {tnelyos-cp}> on Wednesday September 13 2017, @09:18AM (#567143) Homepage

  Yes, this is a BBC wording issue. It's terrible english - it's been businessified, with added weaseling to expedite confusification of the reader, so that the MBA-less masses remain ignorant of what the corporatists in power are doing with the public's money.
  
  Editors could have made the quoting more quotey, so there's be no confusion, admittedly.

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• Re:Phoenix666 should be ashamed of himself Re:Phoenix666 should be ashamed of himself (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 13 2017, @11:42AM (1 child)

  by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 13 2017, @11:42AM (#567178)

  It's terrible english

  That's not english - it's british.

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  • Re:Phoenix666 should be ashamed of himself (Score: 2) by FatPhil on Thursday September 14 2017, @03:38AM

    by FatPhil (863) <reversethis-{if.fdsa} {ta} {tnelyos-cp}> on Thursday September 14 2017, @03:38AM (#567611) Homepage

    it's business/marketting speak, I think the US leads the development of that tongue nowadays.

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