> Even the UK prime minister Boris Johnson, a conservative pundit, went on record as stating that renewables were the quickest, cheapest, and easiest way to sho

> Even the UK prime minister Boris Johnson, a conservative pundit, went on record as stating that renewables were the quickest, cheapest, and easiest way to shore up the energy grid and remove dependence upon Russian oil and gas. He is not particularly known for the virtue of truthfulness. Turning the UK into “the Saudi Arabia of wind” has not gone the way he planned. Offshore wind costs have been rising, and the narrative of industrial growth has ceased to hold water. Also why is onshore wind still so hard to construct in England? The PM had a large majority and yet failed to enact legislation to permit such development. I guess he could have been arguing to place all bets on offshore, which seems foolhardy given how often ocean cables seem to break/be broken. > The rejections ignored the incoming economy of scale and ramping of manufacturing, instead focusing on an immediate cost comparisson One might say the same of other energy sources… a consistent campaign of construction brings costs down.