BeesKnee5 wrote:7.5p/kWh at night and 30p/kWh during the day is what I pay the supplier.
£75MWh CfD is what the wind farm is paid, whether it supplies power during the day or night.
There is no doubling.
How will you pay 7.5p kwh when the wind farm is paid 7.5p kwh to produce that energy?
Who will pay the suppliers that buy their energy from the producers, the sub-contractors, the carbon taxes, the windfall taxes, the energy agents and so on and forth?
Combined with the reduction on gas production, you will be paying more than double in fact.
Did you know that £75mwh is so high, that the government is applying windfall taxes beyond that figure even on "renewable" generators?
Did you know that £75 mwh is 1.5 times greater than the average price of electricity in the past decade according to gov.uk? Even when including the carbon taxes that are missing from wind? Once the carbon taxes are excluded from gas to give us its actual real price the difference is around 3 times greater a price for wind(£75mwh) than for Gas(£25-30 mwh).
https://www.gov.uk/government/publicati ... -factsheetYou have already argued that:
1) You want to pay double the electricity rate you are currently paying, you consider this "fair based on inflation", and never mind that your electricity prices are already doubled from 2-3 years ago. According to your logic, you are happy with doubling the price every 2-3 years or so.
2) You want to drive electricity prices even further up by stopping gas production in this country altogether despite the fact that gas is required as back-up for "renewables".
3) You want to pay around 1 billion every 2 years to shut off wind turbines in curtailment costs. Pay them to do nothing.
4) You want to pay green levies on your electricity bill. And you want the levy taxes to apply on carbon taxes + the price instead of only the actual price of an item.
5) You are happy paying the second highest price of electricity in the world.
In the meantime,
60% of urban dwellers in the UK have no off-street parking, and when they do not have off-street parking they have to pay for public chargers(I wonder what is the environmental and C02 cost of adding all these public chargers that are so expensive very few actually use them unless in urgent need) to charge their cars. Not 7.5p kwh in Octopus anymore, but
64p kwh for the slow ones that take hours and 85p for the fast ones that take 30-60 minutes to charge. Now 85p is about 30% more expensive to refill your car with electricity than it is to refill it with petrol. 64p is about the same as petrol & diesel but the time required to reach the place, leave the car, collect again while waiting for hours must also be accounted for. Time is money after all.
Imagine how many of these poor souls with no off-street parking exist around the world in places like New York, Beijing, Athens, Rome, Berlin.
Today:
The future:
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