The Alternative Green Energy Thread

silverwhistle

I know renewables enthusiasts will disagree and think everything is
going well and getting better every with every kWh of fossil fuel
generation that is displaced but objectively if you were just trying to
run the industry in the most cost effective manner we would probably
have gone about it in a different way.

So what is your alternative way, and more importantly what would be your way of producing and using energy, given your less than enthusiastic response to the issues raised by changes to our systems? Change can be painful but harking back to the old CEGB (and I used to work in the ESI) is not a helpful reference. You seem to conflate organisation, ownership, politics and generation type in one general complaint about the current system.

I can see no issue with encouraging the displacing of fossil fuels, and I presume you have no issue with that?

So what exactly do you think would improve matters?

Many of us appreciate that the criticism from the right of net zero is given some weight by the cost of energy at the moment, but looking at Europe the countries that tend to have the lowest prices aren't the ones with low renewables.

michaels

Perhaps it is much simpler, if we priced fossil fuels based on the overall cost including climate change externalities then all this conversation re renewables being expensive would be moot?