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\"DSC_4304\"<\/a>The government’s energy policy is collapsing.\u00a0\u00a0 With Brexit not much attention has been paid to what has happened over the last week.\u00a0 Its looks like Hitachi has pulled the plug on new nuclear at Wyfla and therefore at Oldbury.\u00a0 These two stations were expected to supply 7% each of the UK electricity.\u00a0 This leaves a considerable hole to be plugged and follows on from Toshiba pulling out the Cumbria project.\u00a0 The deal collapsed due to the UK government asking for a strike price of \u00a37.5\/MWh.\u00a0 This is considerably less than Hinkley Point C at \u00a39.25\/MWh.\u00a0 Hitachi didn’t think it was economic at this price to build either reactor.\u00a0 They have written off a truly mind boggling \u00a32 billion for this station alone?<\/p>\n

The government has put (almost) all its eggs in the nuclear basket.\u00a0 They have cut onshore wind, tidal\/wave and are abolishing the FIT.\u00a0 The green new deal (admittedly a disaster) was abolished and has not been replaced.\u00a0 BEIS openly admit nuclear cannot compete with wind\/solar and yet have done almost everything they can to destroy them (this continues apace with proposed standing charges on grid connected microgen and alterations to the export regime).\u00a0\u00a0 There are a whole heap of interconnectors under construction but both brexit and the size of the hole lead me to think these will not be enough. Energy policy is collapsing, the government needs to rethink on the abolition of the FIT, allow onshore wind through the planning system and invest in tidal and wave.\u00a0 And come up with a proper energy efficiency scheme.\u00a0 I have changed my mind on these sources thinking it would be too expansive for too long, but the collapse in the cost of offshore wind generation makes me think that these could undergo very rapid cost reductions as well.<\/p>\n

Neil<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The government’s energy policy is collapsing.\u00a0\u00a0 With Brexit not much attention has been paid to what has happened over the last week.\u00a0 Its looks like Hitachi has pulled the plug on new nuclear at Wyfla and therefore at Oldbury.\u00a0 These … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,243,4,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nuclear","category-ocean-energy","category-renewables","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\nEnergy policy is collapsing - The oil lamp - shining God's light on peak oil<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theoillamp.co.uk\/?p=8371\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"admin\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theoillamp.co.uk\/?p=8371\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.theoillamp.co.uk\/?p=8371\",\"name\":\"Energy policy is collapsing - 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