This article is basically saying that the UK can either go with fossil fuels (favoured by the US) or with renewables (in some ways favoured by China because China sells most solar panels, and builds a lot of wind turbines). Some of the commenters on the article are talking about investing in nuclear energy.
What do you think? Should the UK invest in fossil fuels, or renewables, or both? Should the UK invest in nuclear energy?
I think the UK, and Europe in general, should probably invest in renewables. Surely solar panels and wind turbines can be made by European companies, so Europe could use those, instead of depending on China.
The UK is currently producing around 40MW and apparently there’s 70MW in data connection load pending approval. Yet we can’t even meet the 40MW load the UK already has.
So we really need to focus on putting solar and batteries in every house before we throw money at more wind/solar farms. That’ll free up a bunch of power, but more importantly, most homes will be shielded from the cost because they’ll produce there own.
Until it doesn’t… the government seems to be putting in regulations where the grid control your battery allowing them to dump your battery to the grid anytime they need it and charge you for recharging it later. 🤦♂️
You couldn’t make it up!
