An actual bill from a coffee shop in Ireland...highway robbery.
Posted on 08/30/2022 7:42:37 AM PDT by dennisw
The government has set a target date of October 2024 to end the use of coal power in Britain
A coal-fired power station is expected to delay closing part of its plant in the latest sign that Britain is scaling back its decarbonisation drive because of surging energy prices.
The government has set a target date of October 2024 to end the use of coal power in Britain. But in May Kwasi Kwarteng, the business secretary, wrote to the National Grid’s electricity system operator, asking it to work with the owners of coal-fired power stations to keep them running after Russia invaded Ukraine.
A power station in Ratcliffe-on-Soar, Nottinghamshire, is expected to delay closing a 500 megawatt unit, The Guardian reported. Uniper, the German owner of the site, has negotiated a deal to keep it online in exchange for a fee paid by the grid operator. Previous deals were struck with the energy companies EDF and Drax to keep plants running in Yorkshire and West Burton, Nottinghamshire. The total cost of the deals to the grid is expected to be between £220 million and £420 million.
Energy prices have risen since Russia cut its gas supplies to Europe in response to western sanctions imposed after the Ukraine invasion. Ofgem, the energy regulator, announced last week that the price cap would rise to £3,549 a year from October. There are forecasts that the average household energy bill could be more than £6,000 by April.
Robert Buckley of Cornwall Insight, an energy consultancy, said increased reliance on coal was part of a “trade-off” that placed less importance on protecting the environment. “There are trade-offs everywhere. The big trade-off that Europe got wrong was relying on Russian gas,” he said.
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Reality is a stubborn thing.
The prospect of freezing this winter has a way of clearing the cobwebs out of people’s minds. Putin is doing Europe a favor, when Europeans kick their Greenies to the curb in the coming months of cold weather.
What would Brandon do?? Folks here on oil or diesel....are soooo sc*****.
Pretty soon ‘carrying coal to Newcastle’ will take on a new meaning.
Moments after the emergency is over, the spiders will spin new cobwebs, everybody will forget and they will all go back to dreaming of unicorn energy.
a few years ago, I read a public opinion poll which showed (in short, and from memory) that Germans like 80% to 20
% were absolutely and unalterably opposed to allowing LNG imports from the US.
Perhaps the respondents didn’t understand that their desire to ban US gas led to complete dependence on Russian gas.
But, net net, this is what Europe wanted. Anything but allowing US energy companies to make money.
Which DJT told them would happen in his speech at the UN. They all laughed.
right....and they will say that the renewables/unreliables will ween them off of Russian gas....
Curious, the title is about using coal but the picture shows nuclear cooling towers.
Does not inspire confidence.
An actual bill from a coffee shop in Ireland...highway robbery.
No, those cooling towers are a well-known landmark close to the M1 Motorway. They’re the Ratcliffe-on-Soar coal-fired power station.
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Below is a coal plant with hyperbolic cooling towers.
Besides, the editor just told some low-level flunky person in charge of images "find me a picture of a power plant with lots of smoke" and the flunky grabbed a photo of cooling towers with water condensation to make it look evil. I'd guess 99.99% of people don't know that isn't smoke coming out of the cooling towers.
Even the worthless politicians are starting to realize further Gaia Worship would mean the end of their political careers.
Now to roll back all they’ve done in the last 15-20 years.....
Whenever my kids get these pie in the sky dreams, and I dose them with reality, they always get mad at me and say I am a pessimist. I always tell them I am a realist. I’m generally an optimistic person, but I know what’s real and fake.
Thanks for the correction. I appreciate it.
I live not far from a nuke and we often see
the steam rising.
Wow!! How do you stay business when you get that kind of utility bill month after month?
You don’t...and keep in mind the big increase in UK utility rates doesn’t go into effect until October.
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