Impressed £67.5 billion... nope... 263 billion, and rising.

[Embattle]

https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/sizewell-b-nuclear-plant-extension-possible-investment-needed-edf-energy-says-2026-01-21/

 

[Embattle]

Last year in review:

2025 Electricity Review – Energy Dashboard

Analysis of GB electricity generation, demand, and carbon intensity for 2025 compared with 2024

www.energydashboard.co.uk

 

[Embattle]

View: https://youtu.be/NW_ThUR7Wus?si=jUsnDZ6SW_kaqwxl

 

[Embattle]

Looks like a North sea super grid is a step closer:

UK among 10 countries to build 100GW wind power grid in North Sea

Energy secretary Ed Miliband says clean energy project is part of efforts to leave ‘the fossil fuel rollercoaster’

www.theguardian.com

 

[Embattle]

Invest sooner rather than later in your own solar etc

UK electricity will cost more in 2030 than after invasion of Ukraine, warns Centrica

Need for more investment in British energy system drives up costs

www.ft.com

 

[Deebs]

Invest sooner rather than later in your own solar etc

UK electricity will cost more in 2030 than after invasion of Ukraine, warns Centrica

Need for more investment in British energy system drives up costs

www.ft.com

Fucking paywall.

 

[Embattle]

Fucking paywall.

I did wonder, it seems random, here:

Miliband’s £300 bills pledge 'dead' as British Gas boss warns costs will SOAR

ED MILIBAND’S promise to slash £300 off energy bills has been branded “dead in the water” after a bombshell warning from the boss of British Gas. Centrica boss Chris O’Shea said that el…

www.thesun.co.uk

 

[Embattle]

View: https://youtu.be/BXEOTc1ozcA?si=yIJhLgyD6N3cF2D3

 

[Embattle]

Reaching net zero by 2050 ‘cheaper for UK than one fossil fuel crisis’

Climate change committee finds move to renewable energy would also bring health, economic and security benefits

www.theguardian.com

 

[Scouse]

Prioritising AI data centres could block new homes, builders warn

The government plans to give data centres priority access to the electricity grid to speed up development.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[Ormorof]

Prioritising AI data centres could block new homes, builders warn

The government plans to give data centres priority access to the electricity grid to speed up development.

www.bbc.co.uk

Data Centers will be online but no one can use them because their power is out?

 

[Scouse]

Data Centers will be online but no one can use them because their power is out?

Americans can use them.

 

[Deebs]

Data Centers will be online but no one can use them because their power is out?

Americans can use them.

You two are both silly, the Artificial Intelligence's will use their datacentres not us mere organic plebs.

 

[Raven]

I know @Scouse has a phobia of hydrogen, but if farmers devoted "some" land to solar/wind, or even deep bore hydroelectric, to produce hydrogen, and used it for hydrogen plant vehicles, and winter power requirements then they would not be so open to such sudden and unexpected cost hikes.

Food prices likely to rise due to Iran war, farmers' union says

The National Farmers' Union says the price of cucumbers, tomatoes and peppers could rise over the next six weeks.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[Scouse]

I know @Scouse has a phobia of hydrogen

No I don't. Not at all.

But right now it's mostly a white elephant.

Look at your own sentences - deep bore hydroelectric? I mean, there is indeed a niche use case for underground pumped hydro. But I suspect you mean geothermal? Either way the exhorbitant cost of producing energy this way is going to massively exceed the currently inflated oil prices by at least an order of magnitude.

If you've solar or wind in your field you simply use that power.

If you talk blue hydrogen - you're just paying for oil and gas anyway whilst introducing inefficiencies everywhere, so where's the protection from cost hikes?

Details matter.

 

[Tom]

It's useful to create hydrogen when we have too much renewable energy available. But I don't see much point in creating it at any other time.

 

[Scouse]

It's useful to create hydrogen when we have too much renewable energy available. But I don't see much point in creating it at any other time.

100%.

And BP literally just pulled the plug on a blue hydrogen plant - one that kept burning their oil and gas - so if they can't be bothered to make it with their own oil and gas, then it seems to me that not a lot of people are going to bother with hydrogen.