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The figures have been shared many times.
"While renewable sources such as wind and solar are typically cheaper to produce, gas generation is more expensive due to the cost of producing gas."
https://www.ofgem.gov.uk/blog/wholes...roducing%20gas.

Gas attracts global price rates and more capacity in the UK won't impact this. At the moment, the high price of gas is negatively impacting British industry, not renewables. We need to look at the facts, not what GB News's fossil fuel funders might prefer to tell us.

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I'd love some solar panels on my roof, and a couple of batteries to store the 'free' power they would make.

Sadly I can't afford it . . and neither can the Government ;)

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However, they are also impossible to produce a lot of the time (no sun, no wind). ;)

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A decent negotiator cannot do the impossible. That's just hot air.

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Well if the government stopped being cowards and decoupled the price of Renewables from the price of Gas and Coal like the Conservatives said they would, now Labour have said they will, then the price of our electric and gas could be cheaper, but none of the parties will do that because the funds will dry up in their back pockets.



As it is I have got a Ecoflow Delta 3 Classic sat behind me, I have a 515w solar panel being delivered anytime between tomorrow and Monday 6th July, then I need to run the cables out of the room, down to where the panel will be going temporarily because there is some work going on behind the house, and I do not want the panel damaging.

That 515w panel I am hoping will provide 400w+ during the day, to remove that from the main electric usage, if that works out, then I will start saving for a larger version of the Ecoflow and another panel or four and essentially move off the grid for day usage.

If the 515w panel can remove 400w it will remove about 70% of the electric from my server rack during the day.

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Not worth paying for solar panels at my time of life for as I wouldn't recoup the cost, however these small portable units that are soon to go on sale at Tesco look interesting.

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it's not about you it's about saving the planet for future generations

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I'm with Richard on this one, it takes too long to get any savings from solar panels and batteries, and "Saving the planet" is just greenie nonsense. As has been noted in previous topics, even if the whole of the UK stopped producing any CO2 at all, it will still have practically no effect, we produce around 1% or less of global emissions

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You could tell it was just a bit of fun because, unlike the experts on global warming, he didn't fly half way round the world to mention it ;)

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yep i'm the one with the coal powered stove and a diesel car

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I don't think some of you are giving Andy a chance.

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Glad you've seen the light at last ;)

How are sea levels at Cleethorpes?

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about the same as 20,000 years ago

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Seas levels were much lower 20,000 years ago (Ice Age). :D