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Originally Posted by Paul
If [or when ?] Labour get into power, you'll have a whole new energy crisis to deal with.
One of Starmer's 'five missions' is "removing fossil fuels from all of Britain's electricity generation by 2030".
This despite the fact that almost 42% of current generation is from Gas, and 2.5% from Coal.
What does he think is going to generate all this electricity in [just under] 7 years time ?
(when of course, we'll likely need even more to than we produce now, to charge up all these electric cars).
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We will hopefully have one more nuclear plant up by then, but yeah 2030 seems too ambitious, probably election campaign nonsense, I think its doable by 2050 if we get our act together on tidal power and more nuclear power. Increasing wind and solar capacity combined with battery storage will help as well, currently I think we dont store much if any of the generated wind power meaning we have periods of excess where people like me get paid to use electric, and periods of shortage when there isnt enough wind.