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Britain’s green energy disaster should be an awful warning to Americans
UK Telegraph ^ | 6/11/23 | Capell Aris

Posted on 06/12/2023 12:55:14 PM PDT by DallasBiff

Last year, the Biden administration set an ambitious new goal for the USA: to deploy 30 gigawatts (GW) of offshore wind capacity by the year 2030, increasing US offshore capacity more than seven hundred times over. The UK already has 15 GW of offshore wind, more than 300 times as much as the USA: and our experience should be a terrible warning to Americans.

The UK’s electricity prices are the highest since records began in 1920 and are now amongst the highest in all Europe. One reason for this is obvious: slightly less than half our electricity comes from gas-burning Combined Cycle Gas Turbines (CCGTs) and gas now costs £90 per megawatt-hour (MWh), nearly five times higher than normal. CCGTs are cheap to build (around £650m per GW) and operate. In normal times they would generate electricity at a total cost of £40 per MWh. That’s now risen to nearly £150/MWh, thanks to Vladimir Putin and his impact on the gas market

(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Government; Politics/Elections; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: energy; leftistutopia
Well oh my, I remember as president for a day Kamala having a big "O", about electric school buses last year.
1 posted on 06/12/2023 12:55:14 PM PDT by DallasBiff
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To: DallasBiff

Judas goat Biden is leading America to the slaughterhouse.


2 posted on 06/12/2023 1:00:08 PM PDT by 353FMG (Secretly practicing my Putin swagger..)
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To: DallasBiff

she gets a hummer from the transformers


3 posted on 06/12/2023 1:01:41 PM PDT by BigFreakinToad (Biden whispered "Don't Jump")
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To: 353FMG

yep and too damned many are happy to go


4 posted on 06/12/2023 1:02:23 PM PDT by BigFreakinToad (Biden whispered "Don't Jump")
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To: DallasBiff

USA Democrats are to stupid to learn from other’s mistakes.


5 posted on 06/12/2023 1:02:59 PM PDT by rellic
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To: DallasBiff
Whooda seen that coming?/s

OH we don't need warnings! We know that we are the lemmings and we are being driven to the cliff.

Mass psychosis kinda behavior and I can't fathom the willingness of public participation?

6 posted on 06/12/2023 1:03:02 PM PDT by blackdog ((Z28.310) My dog Sam eats purple flowers.)
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To: DallasBiff

IIRC, the British govt has a lot invested in ‘green’ stocks and needs for them to succeed in order to pay pensions.


7 posted on 06/12/2023 1:18:45 PM PDT by Cowgirl of Justice
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To: DallasBiff

Germany’s disaster with green energy should also be heeded.


8 posted on 06/12/2023 1:21:07 PM PDT by lastchance (Cognovit Dominus qui sunt eius.)
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To: rellic

It’s not stupidity. The Climate BS is everything to the rats. Power, Control and unlimited funding. Everything.


9 posted on 06/12/2023 1:33:26 PM PDT by gibsonguy
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To: rellic

not mistakes in their eyes....features


10 posted on 06/12/2023 1:37:43 PM PDT by xp38
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To: DallasBiff
"thanks to Vladimir Putin and his impact on the gas market"

When President Trump let the drillers Drill Baby Drill, we became the Saudi Arabia of Natural Gas. We were shipping huuuuge amounts of LNG to Europe. Our own NG prices plummeted. The Obama / Biden Regime attacks and destroys all forms of inexpensive energy.

11 posted on 06/12/2023 1:45:08 PM PDT by Ronaldus Magnus III (Do, or do not, there is no try)
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To: DallasBiff

AOC, the barmaid turned queen is the loud mouth ahole pushing for that here.


12 posted on 06/12/2023 1:47:12 PM PDT by antidemoncrat (AS )
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To: DallasBiff

isn’t wind energy free?


13 posted on 06/12/2023 2:31:48 PM PDT by kvanbrunt2
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To: 353FMG

I am waiting fore someone to figure out that HEAVY WRECKERS cannot be electric.

The kind that recover semis & trailers that have crashed.


14 posted on 06/12/2023 5:28:57 PM PDT by ridesthemiles
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To: lastchance

And Denmark
and Spain
and Calieffedup

Others?


15 posted on 06/12/2023 8:50:11 PM PDT by Sequoyah101 (Procrastination is just a form of defiance.)
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To: BigFreakinToad

We have no one to blame for our demise but ourselves. National suicide seems to be the order of the day.


16 posted on 06/13/2023 1:27:41 PM PDT by 353FMG (Secretly practicing my Putin swagger..)
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To: 353FMG

Hate too do it, but I agree. Most people are afraid to take a big step back, open there eyes and minds to observe the big picture.


17 posted on 06/13/2023 1:33:11 PM PDT by BigFreakinToad (Biden whispered "Don't Jump")
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