By Paul Homewood
h/t Dennis Ambler
There was an interesting debate in the House of Lords yesterday, triggered by a question by Lord Frost to Lord Callanan, the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the DESNZ:
https://www.theyworkforyou.com/lords/?id=2024-05-16a.684.4&s=speaker%3A10613#g686.1
The response by Callanan was disgracefully misleading.
For a start, he claimed that offshore wind only cost £44/MWh, based on DESNZ levelised costs published last November. But hew must know that these costings are totally unrealistic, given that his own Department increased the Administrative strike price to £100.27/MWh at 2023 prices last November.
Moreover, he also falsely claimed that gas generation cost £114/MWh, but this figure includes an artificial carbon tax of £60/MWh. The true cost should be £54/MWh.
He is then asked by Lord Tyrie whether the wider system costs should be included in his assessment of offshore wind costs. Callanan waffles about this without actually telling us what the added cost might be.
It is, of course, abundantly clear that when these extra costs are included, the cost of offshore wind power is considerably more than gas. Callanan knows this, and should be forced back to the chamber to apologise for deliberately misleading Parliament.
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May 17, 2024 at 03:41AM
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