By Paul Homewood

h/t Ian Cunningham

The PAC is now getting worried about Miliband’s lunatic Clean Power plans:

https://committees.parliament.uk/publications/47200/documents/245104/default/

Their latest report states:

They have every reason to be concerned.

As independent experts have long pointed out, NESO’s numbers do not stack up, particularly if demand increases as much as predicted.

At best their plan makes us dangerously reliant on imports and demand reduction. And at its heart, it assumes we keep open and ticking over all of our current gas fired capacity.

I see no evidence of DESNZ taking action to ensure this. Simply muddling through a year at a time, which is what the Capacity Market auctions essentially do, is not good enough. What are needed are long term 15-year contracts to secure all existing capacity that can keep going on that long, plus a rapid build out of new CCGT capacity incentivised by generous long term capacity contracts.

via NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT

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March 28, 2025 at 11:08AM