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  • Martyn1981
    Martyn1981 Posts: 14,764 Forumite
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    Coal provided just 2% of UK power in H1 2017
    Just five years after meeting 40% of U.K.’s electricity supply, data from Imperial College London shows that coal only met 2% of the country’s power needs in the first half of the year.
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  • michaels
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    Martyn1981 wrote: »
    Coal provided just 2% of UK power in H1 2017
    Kyoto-tastic - and to think everyone thought the tories weren't green ;)
    I think....
  • NigeWick
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    michaels wrote: »
    Kyoto-tastic - and to think everyone thought the tories weren't green ;)
    They aren't. However, businesses are profit oriented and as costs of renewables come down they'll follow the money. This government has no idea of how fast things are changing and think £Millions will do a lot for our future when individual companies abroad are spending $Billions on R&D to bring products to market.
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  • Martyn1981
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    Looks like change is a-coming:

    Electricity shake-up could save consumers 'up to £40bn'

    Drop in wind energy costs adds pressure for government rethink
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  • rugbyleaguesmate
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    Hi Martyn headline news........can't find any details yet tho.
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  • JimLad
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    All very promising, but no details on what they are actually going to do
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  • Martyn1981
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    Hiya folks, yep no news yet but should be fun! Apologies for more nuclear bashing, but this is going to be a tough decade for any government whilst webuild out Hinkley Point C at twice the cost of supporting wind and PV. If the off-shore contracts this year are even close to the rumours then it all gets a bit sticky!

    I can't believe how fast things have changed since 2012 (HPC deal).
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  • Exiled_Tyke
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    Looks like pure stupidity on the part of the government. They've embraced this far too late (if they really have embraced it - we ned to see the details). The need to go down this path could have been anticipated years ago: certainly during the time Hinkley Point was being considered. And of course in the end, it is the tax payers and consumer who will end up paying
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  • legoman62
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    Tesco will have them in next year!:rotfl:
    [url]Http://news.sky.com/story/246m-government-drive-to-make-uk-leader-in-battery-technology-10959431[/url]
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  • Martyn1981
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    I hope there is some good news for PV, on-shore wind and storage, but I'll remain "peev'd" at the loss of 2016 and 2017 when momentum could have been built up, rather than run down .... a bit like a battery!
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