By Paul Homewood
State subsidies for new offshore wind projects may not be generous enough to drive the projects needed to achieve targets for boosting clean energy, a leading climate adviser to the government has warned.
Baroness Brown of Cambridge, chairwoman of the adaptation sub-committee of the Climate Change Committee, the independent non-departmental public body, said Britain had been “slow” and “not very clever” in its handling of offshore wind auctions.
The government has raised the so-called strike price, a guaranteed price that generators are paid for the power they produce, to £73 per megawatt-hour for this year’s auction and has set the budget at a record £800 million in the hope of attracting new offshore wind schemes. Last year’s round failed to secure any bids to build.
Of course, this was not what the Baroness was saying a few years ago:
https://www.carbontrust.com/news-and-insights/insights/offshore-wind-a-uk-success-story
All that has happened in the interim is that the wind industry is now admitting that wind power is not as cheap as the Baroness and her chums on the CCC have been telling the government and the public.
We have been sold offshore wind, which is supposed to be the bedrock of Net Zero, on a lie propagated by the CCC. Now that lie has been exposed, we are left with the bill.
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May 28, 2024 at 03:47AM
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