That was kind of what I was thinking. It's a nice idea in theory but would be overcomplicated and prone to error in practice.
(BTW Can you quote properly? Preferably abandon Windows Live Mail or get the earlier version which could quote).
If the new assets have a "significantly increased asset life" then the price of energy should drop in the medium term ;-)
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If only.
Bzzzzt! They did introduce an 8% VAT rate for gas and electricity, with a plan to raise it to the standard 17.5% rate, but the plan never happened (due to labour coming into power).
Correct.
example?
Possibly for a few months, maybe even a year but it can't continue to operate beyond January 2014.
Connah's Quay 1.4GW of 'cheap' gas generation is sited not too far away electrically from the new Irish Interconnector. I'm surprised its still going though as it's been up and running for a decade and a half, by that age many gas plants are completely f*cked.
really?? I thought they were the sort of 25 year lifespan
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It would be very easy with smart meters to combine different energy sources.
It would be an incentive to upgrade less efficient houses. There could be atransition period with the allowance gradually reduced.
Again, very easy to account for cold/warm spells with (the right) smart metering.
Obviously such things would be taken into account.
MBQ
How? What would stop everyone saying there are 10 people living in their house?
the electoral roll.
For a start.
that only lists those over 18.
Depends how much you paid for them, how cheap your gas was, how desperate you were for 'profits' and consequentally how hard they were run. The Enron 'financed' plant on Teesside was on its last legs after less than 15 years. Bought by GdF for a knock down price after Enron went to the wall they quickly realised they had bought a bag-o-s**te, so much so that they decided to spend
0.5 billion on what would have been a ground up rebuild. They then had seccnd thoughts and 1.8GW of CCGT capacity was permanently taken offline leaving about 50MW of declared OCGT capacity at the site. Realistically none of it will run again.Meanwhile Ferrybridge C is still generating and has done for over 46 years.
yeah, that I believe. Drax is no chicken either, but then these are large capital plants and worth repairing - gas has gotten expensive and centrica has closed a CCGT unit as well somewhere.
In short the way for fly-by-nights to make dosh is with windmills and a guaranteed price for every unit they can dish out Not having top sell expensive gas against cheap coal in an un competitive market.
Use your imagination.
MBQ
Someone mention Wind;?...
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