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Apply to build a new hydropower scheme
The licences and permits you need, the documents you must prepare, and how to apply to build a hydropower scheme.
If you wondered why Hydropower is the Cindarella of renewable energy systems, despite being less prone to the vagaries of weather, and unlike solar, produces more power in Winter, that gov document should enlighten you. It is almost as if they don't want hydropower.
Luckily on the Somerset levels ( crewkerne to bridgewater ) the EA are perfectly qualified at doing that all by themeselves . Very much a do as I say not as I do policy here .
Then throw in a good dose of Wessex Water , you can then have a watercourse that is “Toxic by water quality standards but healthy as possible by fish quantities standards” . Their words not mine .
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I recently saw this chart
It's easy to get distracted by the relatively swift and easy first bit at decarbonising the Grid that has been done. But a bit depressing to see just how much energy we use overall and where it still comes from. I.e, oil and gas.
Some changes that are being pushed; EVs and heat pumps, will help us use fewer kWh for the same jobs. But it's a massive task and, until I saw this hadn't quite realised how important energy use reduction probably need to continue. Don't know if that can be done without hurting living standards and growth or not.
It's easy to get distracted by the relatively swift and easy first bit at decarbonising the Grid that has been done. But a bit depressing to see just how much energy we use overall and where it still comes from. I.e, oil and gas.
Some changes that are being pushed; EVs and heat pumps, will help us use fewer kWh for the same jobs. But it's a massive task and, until I saw this hadn't quite realised how important energy use reduction probably need to continue. Don't know if that can be done without hurting living standards and growth or not.
People will not cut their energy consumption and hence their standard of living.
Britain had the World's first commercial nuclear power station. Over the last 30 years we turned our back on nuclear and that is why we are in this mess now. France is the only major country that gets most of it's power from nuclear AND they put out far less CO2 than any other country.
The sooner the Rolls Royce SMRs are up and running the better.
And yet nobody wants coal banned!
Everyone else will have to freeze and turn their lights out, to pick up the slack.
At least 63 new coal fired power plants on the way. https://www.theguardian.com/environ...ants-uk-cop26-climate-summit-global-phase-out
At least 63 new coal fired power plants on the way. https://www.theguardian.com/environ...ants-uk-cop26-climate-summit-global-phase-out
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@fizzy seriously, there are options other than nuclear
I agree we need more for the baseload, but it is far from the perfect it ideal solution
The UK is building the biggest offshore wind farms in the world, with private investment, not govt funding or subsidies.
That means big business has other ideas
I agree we need more for the baseload, but it is far from the perfect it ideal solution
The UK is building the biggest offshore wind farms in the world, with private investment, not govt funding or subsidies.
That means big business has other ideas
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Not strictly true, people *have* cut their energy usage. Look at the top line of the chart.
Things like EVs, heat pumps and better insulated homes (all use less energy for the same level of work/comfort) will help drive down the top line further but crumbs it's s long way to go.
What is the point in more wind power?
We are in this mess because very often the wind doesn't blow and we use 60% gas.
Even having 10x more windfarms won't help when there is a 2 week lull.
IF there was an efficient means of storing all this energy I would welcome it with open arms. But there isn't!
And then we get more and more electric cars which doubles the demand on the grid.
As to the profitability of wind farms big companies are starting to have doubts.
They put in low strike bids to get the projects but it looks like the bids were too low.
www.upstreamonline.com
They put in low strike bids to get the projects but it looks like the bids were too low.
World's largest offshore wind farm 'unprofitable' for Equinor, say government-funded researchers
New Norwegian study challenges Equinor's profitability from the world largest offshore wind project under construction, located in the UK North Sea
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Sure. Will it be a problem? Maybe, but it's not like it's unforseeable. Or going to happen overnight. I strongly suspect that the fears many have of EVs causing nightmares with the grid will come to nought.
In fact, the fact that EVs have a giant battery on board is likely to aid grid stability. I have decided that, when V2H technology is available here (currently common in Japan apparently) this will be the time for me to reassess if an EV can work for us.
The fact that an EV uses, overall, significantly fewer kWh to travel a mile is relevant here too.
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