| Let me rephrase your comment: When there is sun and/or wind we burn less gas. Gas current and futures price for just the gas that needs burned (nothing about plant maintenance or carbon price to compensate for pollution or cost for building the plant or paying loans taken to build it etc.) is at 100, 90 and 80 pounds per MWh over the next 3 years. That is more than the cost to build entirely new solar and wind, about double the cost of the best current projects, maybe 50% more than the average. So even if you waved a magic wand and instantly solved several major world crisis affecting the price of gas, it still would be cheaper to build renewables in the UK than to buy just the gas alone. This is true in the UK and basically everywhere in the world except maybe Russia, some parts of the middle east and the US Shale regions, but even there it's a close thing! This has led to these being nearly 100% of all new electricity capacity built globally. Which only drives prices lower, and displaces gas and so makes gas cheaper than it otherwise would be too. Didn't you start this thread by complaining about expensive energy? We have the solution and you don't like it because you read news from magazines owned by people who pretend climate change isn't real. |
Our energy is expensive and volatile because of this (and subsidies to implement it). You don't seem to be capable of following my argument. It's not a free lunch. Renewables are also slightly problematic for grid stability although I expect we will have enough fast storage / (possibly synthetic) inertia eventually.
"What if we don't fix the roof?"
"but it's sunny?"