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Offshore Wind Power Cheaper Than New Nuclear

posted by Fnord666 on Tuesday September 12 2017, @02:11PM   Printer-friendly
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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  • (Score: 2, Troll) by NewNic on Tuesday September 12 2017, @09:49PM

    by NewNic (6420) on Tuesday September 12 2017, @09:49PM (#566973) Journal

    The interesting thing about wind in the United Kingdom is that somewhere, it's windy, almost always.

    So, while an individual turbine may produce power 30% (or whatever) the time, there is wind power available almost all the time. The UK is a small country and it's not too difficult to manage a grid that covers the entire country.

    The real issue with renewables in the UK (as I see it) is counting wood pellets as renewable. Apart from all the fossil fuel used transporting the wood pellets to the UK, it's not at all clear that the trees that were cut down to produce the pellets are being regrown at the same rate.

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