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>I suspect the difference will be made up by coal/gas. Well, it doesn't seem that it is being offset by coal, given that while it has been offline, the UK has
by inflatableDodo 7y ago
>I suspect the difference will be made up by coal/gas.
Well, it doesn't seem that it is being offset by coal, given that while it has been offline, the UK has also had the longest run of not burning coal for power since industrialisation.
Hunterston is a 1 GW power station and while it has been offline the UK has installed 2 GW in new capacity of offshore wind, if you are looking for what is making up the difference, perhaps start there.
- javagram 7y agoWas the offshore wind only installed because the nuclear plant was taken offline? I’d assume the wind generation capability would have been installed anyway... According to https://www.theguardian.com/environment/ng-interactive/2019/may/25/the-power-switch-tracking-britains-record-coal-free-run https://www.theguardian.com/environment/ng-interactive/2019/... “Although a significant share of coal-powered energy has been replaced by renewable sources such as solar and wind power, the largest power source in Britain remains natural gas, a carbon-emitting fossil fuel.”