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Madness at the margins
DEEP DIVE: For better or worse, marginal pricing of electricity is here to stay
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Competitive tension
How to keep offshore wind subsidies in check
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Less offshore wind = more CO2, even more £££
Extra gas burn would boost UK power emissions by a quarter at a cost of £1 billion every year
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Less offshore wind = more gas, more £££
The UK’s looming offshore wind shortfall could cost billions in extra gas consumption
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Space, time and electricity (part 3)
DEEP DIVE: Burning gas to replace curtailed wind is madness. Nodal pricing does not restore sanity.
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Space, time and electricity (part 2)
DEEP DIVE: What exactly is nodal pricing and why does it mean a return to central dispatch?
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Space, time and electricity (part 1)
DEEP DIVE: How should power prices be formed on a grid that is constraining renewables?
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Tilting at windfall taxes (part 2)
UK government’s bid to claw back profits is riven with dubious trade-offs
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UK wind subsidies go negative
Plus: Putin’s gas-fired power play, stranded asset risks exaggerated + MORE
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Ambitious Icelandic wind project aims to export power to UK grid
Uncorrelated output from North Atlantic would diversify UK’s existing wind generation profile, but the project is a step-up in industry ambition