Decoupling UK Electricity Prices from Gas – Impact, Risks and Next Steps
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Decoupling UK Electricity Prices from Gas – Impact, Risks and Next Steps
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Privatisation
"Marginal pricing: uk wholesale market pays all generators the bid of the last plant needed to meet demand. Gas‑fired stations are usually that “marginal” unit.
Result: Even at times of high wind or solar output, the clearing price reflects the cost of gas,not the cost of renewables"
Crude oil prices, showing a very sharp increase in the last day, from around 65 to 101 dollars per barrel..
Oil prices wouldn't be all over the news today if more of our economy was powered by local, secure renewable energy.
This isn't an "energy crisis". It's a fossil fuel crisis.
44% of UK electricity came from renewables in 2025. More of that plus an electrified economy => no more oil shocks.
Reported by cnn and WSJ now.
The UK used less coal in 2025 than in 1600 when Shakespeare was writing Hamlet, according to CarbonBrief. Meanwhile Trump is taking the US in the opposite direction.
UK emissions fell by 2.4% in 2025.
#BoycottSwasticars. China's BYD Surpasses Tesla as the World's Largest EV Automaker share.google/liFqnKNAtIb7...
Fogstar 32kwh.
Inverter
Fitting
£6750
32kwh x 8pkwh =£2.56 per day
32kwh x 26pkwh =£8.32 per day
£5.76 avoided every day( winter especially)
£5.76 x 30 days per month (heat pump time of year) £172 saved.
£172 x 5 months of winter £864 saved per year .
7.8 year ROI With current prices.
You do know petrol pumps need *electricity AND Petrol?
The Kurds that Trump abandoned in Syria and Iraq ?
I've got magic beans to sell to you.
"It is believed the attack was carried out by Hezbollah militants in Lebanon."
Why Tesla robotaxis can't go driverless:
-4x more likely to crash vs humans
-3x more likely to cause an injury crash vs humans
-FSD knowingly runs red lights/drives the wrong way
-Tesla can't explain why
-Regulatory strangle: 1000s of new FSD crashes found
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Gas heating and oil heating needs electricity.
Pumps, safety etc .
No electricity no heating.
Solar PV diverter can heat the hot water or install solar thermal and/or a heat pump.
BUS Grants are huge and can mostly cover the cost of average installations.
The idea the North Sea is some great goldmine waiting to be tapped is entirely at odds with reality.
Including Minab Primary SCHOOL?
Valid target? Primary school children.
The core question is whether the energy system in the 2030s and 2040s still requires additional #nuclear megaprojects built on decade long timelines when wind, solar, and storage technologies continue expanding on much shorter deployment cycles.
cleantechnica.com/2026/03/06/w...
Solar farms could increase global crop yields by hundreds of billions of pounds, thanks to the protective microclimate created beneath their panels.
www.positive.news/environment/...
Renationilse fine.
Paid for how?
#CleanPower2030 is going to be £Billions, currently privately funded. So even more.
I prefer the RAB proposal to nationalise only the gas ccgt stations , controlling and reducing the prices as they become ever increasingly marginal.
Scale change: A 2MW WT w/ a rotor diameter of 260 ft
The largest installed today is 26MW w/ a rotor diameter of 1,017 feet = 'The Shard' in London (or just short of the Eiffel Tower) being rotated, and with a swept area of 77,000 m² - roughly ~15x the area of the Scroby WTs
