People will not cut their energy consumption and hence their standard of living.I recently saw this chart
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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.
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.