At the end of 2020, I published a report on solar power, wind power, and fossil fuel power market share changes from 2010 to 2020. A helpful reader, Mike Dyke, directed me to UK data for the same period.
Three nuclear power projects in the UK are being cancelled due to intense pressure from renewables. Yet Poland believes nuclear is the key to its energy future. How can nuclear be bad for the UK but good for Poland?
In a demonstration of how out of touch the UK government is with public opinion, it intends to pay approximately twice as much for electricity from the proposed Hinkley C nuclear power plant near Bristol than is paid for electricity from solar power in Europe. With high public support for solar … [continued]
