Author Topic: UK: Offshore Construction Begins for Record-Setting Dogger Bank Wind Farm  (Read 673 times)

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Each of the three phases is slightly bigger than each of the two units at Diablo nuclear plant and twice the total size of Vermont Yankee, which provided much of Vermont's power when I was a kid.

It's more intermittent of course, but that's still a lot of juice.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diablo_Canyon_Power_Plant
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vermont_Yankee_Nuclear_Power_Plant

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6 million homes is a decent fraction of all homes in the UK, round about a 1/5th.

I'm waiting for battery prices to drop a little more, it'll then be economical to stock up on energy on sunny/windy periods on a tariff like Octopus Agile - prices are determined every half hour.

Seems like the whole sector will need shook up over the next 10 years, from generation, transmission costs, oversight - the whole lot.

Still see a lot of comments online about the cost of renewables being expensive, which they were 10 years ago.

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>> once completed in 2026

The British are not messing around.  That is fast for such a huge project.