[matt04]

...the two-megawatt turbines would cost at least [$2.7 billion, plus another $500 million] for the infrastructure.” In contrast, a far bigger gas-fired power plant near Plymouth will produce power without subsidy at one fifteenth the cost

So they will spend at lest 3 BILLION dollars to build wind turbines, that will only work when it is windy, yet they can use natural gas at 1/15 of the cost. That makes sense.

IIRC, the last nuclear plant built in the US cost around 6 billion, and that works with or without wind and sun.

[Winniesboy]

IIRC, the last nuclear plant built in the US cost around 6 billion, and that works with or without wind and sun.

Worth a reminder that the British Government is committed to building 10 new nuclear plants in the next decade - that's rather more than are planned in the US, the last I heard.

[PLMerite]

“So they will spend at lest 3 BILLION dollars to build wind turbines, that will only work when it is windy, yet they can use natural gas at 1/15 of the cost.”

If the British people ever figure out how hoodwinked they’ve been, there’ll be hell to pay.