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Dickens misses that coal though

The cheapest energy in LCOE+ units in this chart is nuclear, as long as it's an existing plant. Building a new plant with current designs adds a lot to the cost. If only there were a way to get someone else besides the taxpayer to build those Natrium plants... bsky.app/profile/jooc...

I know, right?! But NO...we can't expand this here bc people think that windmills R ugly, kill birds, cause cancer, blah blah blah Fossil fuels are so much worse for all livng things' health and there's nothng pretty about smog. New electric technology sources just cut into their profit. Period.

It's interesting that CAISO (California grid) puts Biomass as renewable but not large scale hydro, but the UK grid has that reversed. Still it is super interesting to see how well renewables are being used around the world

Nice. I presume that there’s some gas even though it adds up to more than 100% because we don’t have the grid to transport the clean electricity to where it’s needed? I presume we’re still paying as if it’s all gas generated?

Lotta cancer and dead birds about to happen there /s

President Trump often says he’s a “genius” as he “aced” THREE COGNITIVE TESTS! Yet he battles against WIND TURBINES & Solar Energy on the behalf of his oil friends & HUGE DONNORS! Science 🧫🧪 🧬 is THE ENEMY to Trump!

You could power the grid off the heat of my brow

I'll just digress a moment as I'd like to offer My most sincere thanks all those men and women working the lines and keeping the grids running. You can say what you like about the power companies but those folks are heroes.

None of this is complicated if we have the will to do this. Department of the Interior agreed to pay Invenergy $765 million to terminate offshore wind leases , bringing the administration’s total number of lease buyouts to eight at a cost of + $2.5 billion. www.utilitydive.com/news/trump-a...

Trump administration buys out 4 more offshore wind leases for $765MInvenergy will redirect the funds toward natural gas plants in Indiana, Wisconsin, Iowa, Kansas and Missouri as well as geothermal projects, the U.S. Department of the Interior said.www.utilitydive.com

Brilliant Now the government needs to fix the broken market pricing because this electricity is cheap to produce and even with a modest profit, should be cheap to businesses and consumers

Not much air conditioning though.

I assume no one will tell Trump about this.

But we spending billions restarting our coal mines

Britain has some of the largest tidal reaches in the world, yet has dragged its feet in harnessing tidal energy in any way, shape or form.

You guys and your kilometers and 112.7%’s. You’re a funny group of people but I still like you guys!

Good as that is, it’s a different picture for the last week overall.

Perhaps Trump needs to see this diagram because supporting oil companies just doesnt provide the service we need in American and its more costly and fill the pockets of Trump and his wealthy friends and screws the American people

Regrettably, the fossil in the White House, his cabinet, his administration and his accomplices in Congress are showing renewable energy the door at taxpayer expense. Trump paid $2B to companies to walk away.

An amazing and inspiring accomplishment! Big oil and tech buy American politicians, so they own America. They’re inhumane profiteers who view the planet and the billions of non-player characters inhabiting it as irrelevant trash to exploit, destroy and dispose.

Not making any difference to me, go back to burning coal for all I care.

England doesn't generate enough electricity to keep you powered.

And the country generating most of it (Scotland) is getting fucked on the price of a kilowatt hour.

we're burning more coal.

Has anyone told Farage?

What’s that like? Have your costs come down at the household level?

But,.. but,.. according to Trump that means all their people will now have "noise cancer", all their birds are dead, their drunk drivers will have a harder time, & all the whales (or maybe he meant Wales, like Welsh? He's so stupid it could be either) are dying from this too!!! youtu.be/m4xEHsl-q4o

When Your Driver Won't Stop Talking About The Dangers Of Wind PowerYouTube video by Funny Or Dieyoutu.be

Just imagine if we had govt subsidised insulation, more solar panels on houses and car parks, publicly owned wind & tidal generation & small scale hydro power controlled by local communities. We’d pay so little for our electricity & be doing our bit against the climate emergency.

Excellent

Well done!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Imagine that! Not coal. Not nuclear. Just plain old, clean, renewable energy. The non-polluting kind. WE could have that too ... if the rich guys who own coal mines weren't friends and donors of the current President. We can fix that, America. We can fix that. Vote BLUE this fall.

This is incredible. 👏

10.9% + 90.9% + 10.9% ?

But there making those foxes fat

USA Forget it. Trump.

While the U.S. is trying to kill it.

Not us because trump likes how we can continue to warm up the earth with coal

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Don’t tell Trump

We did pretty well with solar+battery last year.

But but we got coal!

I’m Jealous

Seems important #Britain #NetZero is a national security and economic necessity. If the #ClimateCrisis isn't enough for you.

And 80% of your leccy bill is still gas-based pricing [I guessed 80% TBF, actually it might be 100% thinking about it?]

And in 5 hours?

Yet the price we pay is based on the price of gas. When are we rioting?

The sums don't add up? That's because we are generating so much clean energy right now that we're exporting the surplus.

Big oil should be happy to have a smaller burden

Over 100% of demand met by non fossil. 12.7% of production exported. (We usually import from most sources but very windy and quite sunny but not hot in UK today) Surprised no free electricity sessions from Octopus today…

Seems like a good idea for civilized, progressive societies.

Fantastic

That would be the beans .

Sigh…. says this American whose car said 107 degrees after work!

It's generated 100% of my power, and I drive an EV

Happy for them, but it just rubs in how backwards we are here.

But Dumb Donny doesn’t like those and wants to bring back coal

We are getting beaten out by almost everybody in the world. WAKE UP!!!! Alternative energy is the present and the future.

Meanwhile over here in dumbass land...

Trump doesn’t care about affordability or the environment.

But we need that £35B private investment in nuclear in case the sun goes out.

We’re behind, people!

👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

We’re the laggards of the 1st world order. Too busy making oligarchs richer. Only one planet like earth. No where to flee. It’s a decision. Like making a million other decisions… choosing not to lie, cheat, steal or kill. We’re making bad decisions. That ALWAYS leads to bad outcomes!

@governorwalz.mn.gov can we make Mn the first fully energy green state? If you run for Gov again, maybe you could have this on your list of accomplishments? Mn deserves more of your leadership. Please don’t leave us with Klobuchar, she is too centrist and will capitulate easily.

America is working towards bringing back horse and buggy within the next decade. All those worried farmers will be grateful to be growing lots of hay again! Why only go back to coal? Further back, I say!

Per a Google search 13-17 percent of Arizona’s electricity demand is met by solar.

So when will our bills reduce?

Drill baby drill

Trump is running US behind in everything!

And we still pay the highest prices in Europe. Need to fix our pricing!

If only someone could advise Trump to put the whole US under SOLAR TO,Coal and Oil won't last forever,maybe sooner than we think 🤔 WE ALL NEED TO GO SOLAR for OUR COUNTRY'S SAKE !🙏💙🗽

America not being a leader in solar energy is due to a president that is in bed with the corporate oil and gas companies who only sees it as a competitor, all the while the rest of the world is passing us by.

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That's great!

Guess they didn’t have to go Fascist and take part in the genocide for Gaza’s gas after all? Oh wait…That PM’s father-in-law…what does he do again?

And trmp is SPENDING MILLIONS to STOP the US from using solar and wind!! What would it take to get the UK to invade us?

Someday the USA will enter the 21st century. Currently, we’re stuck in the late 19th century!🙄

YET electric prices are still tied to the price of gas, ridiculous practice that just robs us.

That is so wonderful.... I am so angry that Americans have not demanded the same from our government!

Not here, Not with this administration!

The problem is gas has fixed costs. So using less of it costs us more. So it makes sense to use a certain amount of it. We need to fix this so we can shrink the orange/red part.

Yup! And note that around luchtime today the price was negative!

Someday, America will be as smart as Britain.

and if the Utility Companies listened to ONE CEO some 30 years ago when he suggested at a CONFERENCE that the Companies should invest in SOLAR and WIND Power so they would control ALL the energy output and he was BOO'D off the stage. He went to Europe and set up a Solar Company and is now RICH

Negative power prices are a glimpse of the post-scarcity grid. Now watch institutions try to turn abundance back into rent.

Keep seeing posts like this and they're misleading, so here's a bit more info. Yesterday, nuclear met 14% of total demand and fossil fuels met 16%. Wind was 28% and solar was 3%. Only ~18% of daily energy use is electricity; the rest is gas + oil. Wind + solar = .31 * .18 ≈ 5.5% of total energy.

Don’t bother with facts. We Americans love oil and gas. It’s so expensive you Brits don’t know what your missing. 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

Yet, our bills are still insanely expensive!

And I look at my leccy bill and I think, fuck the politicians. In so many ways we are energy rich, but here we are, fleeced and unprotected.

Not if they build more datacenters

Yes electricity. There is still a huge amount of natural gas used in home boilers for heating etc. The problem is the conversion to electric. How much will that cost?

10.9 + 90.9 + 10.9 = 112,7%

Yes- ELECTRIC- but not ENERGY use due to the incredibly high use of natural gas in homes and businesses.

Solar and wind do not line the pockets of CEOs of oil companies.

I've never been to the native homeland of my ancestors but perhaps an island is the best use case for wind and solar.

Yet... the British working class still can't afford their energy bills, facing record arrears to the tune of almost £5 bil.

If everyone had AC those numbers would be lower. It’s bad for them under a heat dome. Will feel like 107+ on the east coast of US this weekend. Thankful I upgraded my unit last year. Federal Gov. bought out the 4 projects Duke Energy was planning for wind. 500million will now go to nuclear and coal.

Here GOP LOVE FOSSIL FUELS-so they can make money for themselves& cronies

Brilliant.

Meanwhile the Trump administrations bribed Duke Energy with $129M to dump their wind and solar farms in favor of nuclear and other non-renewables.

Can someone explain this to the stupid Russian Republicans and their treasonous supporters.

Yes, but what are the chances that logic like this will impact the humans (taxonomically speaking) who elected this current administration? See what i said earlier on a separate but related matter: bsky.app/profile/ibnt...

…and yet we’re all paying for the most expensive method of production. This needs sorting out.

News like that brightens my day. Makes me confident that with time, we Americans will also enjoy such success, once we get rid of one big, fat pothole in the road right now.

Those are good numbers but still the reality solar- during the daytime & not cloudy, wind - on windy days. Like other nations much needs to be done to R&D ways to generate & store electric energy. Gas & Nuclear still are needed for baseload supply and backup

Wot? No clean, beautiful coal? Way to go Britain, show the world how it is done.

And we’re rewarded with a 13% increase in domestic energy prices because “something, something else” according to BBC sources.

I wish I lived in a forward-thinking country and not the U.S.

4 new Hydro projects approved and another 12 in the pipeline, Renewables are our future.

Oil barrons: LIIIEEESSZSFGHJC!!!!

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Here in Texas Solar and Wind make up a good percentage, too.

No it’s not

Britain is moving forward in the 21st century. The US on the other hand is racing back to the 19th century, to the days of coal and child labour.