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Hinkley B has been in development since around 2010 and has not generated any power. Wind and solar are over 25% of generated electricity per year. And most o
by 7952 4y ago
Hinkley B has been in development since around 2010 and has not generated any power. Wind and solar are over 25% of generated electricity per year. And most of that capacity was built in the last five years. It is growing very quickly.
A few more nuclear power stations would be very valuable. But in terms of decarbonisation renewables are just faster. Interconnectors are also faster to build and also help avoid power cuts.
- headsoup 4y agoWhat will the ratio be once the reactor does come online?
- Symbiote 4y agoI assume the same, as the nuclear power will displace gas power. There's almost always at least 5% of demand supplier by gas. https://www.gridwatch.templar.co.uk/ https://www.gridwatch.templar.co.uk/
- ClumsyPilot 4y agoExcept when there is no wind we have to fire up all the dirty carbon generators. There can be no wind for a week, easilly.
- r_hoods_ghost 4y agoYes but, and this is the point that people seem to miss, that means you don't have to have them burning the rest of the time. This is still better than the actual situation that "we shouldn't do anything unless its big nuclear" proponents are helping to maintain where you are burning carbon all the time because we aren't building nuclear reactors in the real world for a variety of reasons (mostly political) and aren't likely to do so any time soon. So let's do the thing that makes things better and is politically possible even if its not perfect rather than doing nothing.
- blitzar 4y agoWithout the wind turbines the coal plants would be going 24/7 365.
- rpep 4y agoConstruction on Hinckley Point C didn’t start until 2017. Until that point it was going through political and legal challenges and planning.
- 7952 4y agoIt doesn't really make any difference to my original point what the cause of delays were. This is not an academic question over which approach is theoretically better. Consenting is just another real world problem that has to be resolved.
- pgeorgi 4y agoWind has a fair amount of political and legal challenges, too. https://taz.de/Deutsche-Vorschriften-fuer-Windenergie/!5901969/ https://taz.de/Deutsche-Vorschriften-fuer-Windenergie/!59019... has an interactive map showing (in red) the regions that are _not_ usable in Germany according to various regulations (minimum distance from houses). It looks better when zooming in than in the country-wide view, but Bayern (Bavaria), our most ardent wind power saboteur, demonstrates how to do it properly.