[FridayoLeary]

As for point one they are much less reliable because they are intermittent. I'm skeptical of how much cheaper renewables are. I haven't noticed energy prices declining recently. Correct me if i'm misinformed. I'm slightly confused by point 2. What are you saying, because soviet technology is getting sunk a lot we should stop bothering with having a navy?

Either way you are giving way to much credit to the power of the UK military industrial complex.

[zoul]

Solar power is very cheap and still getting cheaper:

https://www.statista.com/chart/35117/levelized-cost-of-energ...

[chickenbig]

Solar power doesn't work well in the UK in winter, with 1/3 of the energy output of summer months.

Taking the limit of free solar power, what would the storage requirements look like for the UK?

[TheOtherHobbes]

The UK is aiming for around 27GW of battery storage by 2030.

But it's not a simple picture. The grid needs to be expanded to distribute power from renewables more efficiently, batteries aren't the only storage option, and the concept is still too centralised.

A combination of distributed rooftop solar with domestic batteries, maybe local storage in substations, strategic national storage, and a mix of sources would be a more effective strategy than trying to park huge batteries around the country in the hope they'll be big enough.

The UK still has a post-war mindset around energy which doesn't make sense in the 21st century.

[chickenbig]

> The UK is aiming for around 27GW of battery storage by 2030.

How many GWh? Citation please.

[lostlogin]

I’m not OP but: https://www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-how-the-uk-plans-to-rea...

It’s either 27 or 27GW they are installing sorry.

[hdgvhicv]

27GW for an hour or for a week?

There’s a massive difference.

[crote]

So build three times as much? Solar has gotten cheap enough that such solutions are quite viable these days. And as a bonus, electricity will be basically free during the summer.

[DoctorOetker]

take a look at all the roofs next winter, if its anything like the other side of the canal, you'll see that the average roof coverage is substantially less than 1/3.