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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:Is wind power truly free? (Score: 1, Troll) by NewNic on Wednesday September 13 2017, @06:30PM

  by NewNic (6420) on Wednesday September 13 2017, @06:30PM (#567364) Journal

  Firstly, the Telegraph routinely features editorials that deny man-made climate change. It's not a credible source for anything relating to climate.

  Secondly, the measured effects described in the article are purely local. Any suggestion of a wider change is speculation, not based on measurement.

  But the killer point in that article is:

  However Prof Zhou pointed out the most extreme changes were just at night and the overall changes may be smaller.

  Also, it is much smaller than the estimated change caused by other factors such as man made global warming.

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  lib·er·tar·i·an·ism ˌlibərˈterēənizəm/ noun: Magical thinking that useful idiots mistake for serious political theory

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