OT Real Cost of Renewables

[bert]

According to DT today a gas power station recently was paid £1000 (one thousand pounds) per MWh when the wind stopped blowing this week. In November one was apparently paid £2500 per MWh. Makes HPC look a real bargain, decommissioning costs and waste disposal included.

[GB]

Are they being paid to have a power station available full-time but only run at times of exceptional demand?

[Chris Hogg]

Article here

It's at the top of the table here (Press Crl + to make it big enough to read). Clicking on the left or right arrows either side of the table brings up other EnAppSys tweets. More tweets here

[newshound]

But presumably only for a single half hour period. (I understood the "Pool" system following privatisation, but am not familiar with "NETA", the new electricity trading arrangements).

The point about the £90 or so HPC price is that it is a constant baseline price over decades of continuous operation.

[bert]

24/7 just like generating capacity needs to be, not like stupid pointless intermittent renewables.