Stories
Slash Boxes
Comments

SoylentNews is people

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

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.


Original Submission

 
This discussion has been archived. No new comments can be posted.
Display Options Threshold/Breakthrough Mark All as Read Mark All as Unread
The Fine Print: The following comments are owned by whoever posted them. We are not responsible for them in any way.
  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 13 2017, @01:33PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 13 2017, @01:33PM (#567212)

    so baseload? predicted baseload? so what happens to the nuke plant if for some theoretical reason people don't use all the baseload? atoms get split for nothing and accumulate as 10'000 year waste nevertheless?
    i think the problem is that renewable are trying to compete on a level playing field instead of a uphill battle:
    we don't need solar and wind to replace conventional powerplants but rather they have to OVERTAKE them at least 200 percent.
    there needs to be at least 200 percent of TOO MUCH renewables .. and then we step into the future where we get the sort of technology that takes the excess energy and converts it into something useful and storable (like "fake plastic wood" :] ).

    i just stumbled across this the other day; in some european country they use excess renewable energy and create some sort of gas that they pipe into the gas-grid. the gas-grid in effect functions like a big gas cylinder. the resulting burnable gas is supposedly safe and can be used just like the previous gas to create heat ...

    of course someone will lose but "the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few".