U.K. offshore wind park may generate power cheaper than by burning coal

Re:U.K. offshore wind park may generate power cheaper than b... by Reason077 on Friday September 20, 2019 @10:04AM (#21026789)

> "The target is for a net zero electricity grid by 2030."

It's more like 2050 according to National Grid's forecasts. Carbon capture and storage is still a pipe-dream, really. The technology exists (arguably - not proven at scale) but not in an economically viable way.

To put it another way, it's cheaper to avoid emitting carbon in the first place than to try and capture and store it.

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Re:U.K. offshore wind park may generate power cheaper than b... by Brakenshire on Friday September 20, 2019 @10:11AM (#21026855)

I agree deploying CCS on that scale doesn’t seem very realistic, but that is the formal target of the government.

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