alt Hacker NewsRolling out more renewables faster will mean more reliance on gas.
I am not sure how people still don't realise this after ten years of doing this and energy prices going up non-stop.
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nicoburns • yesterday at 2:55 PM
Only needing gas when the renewable energy isn't available seems strictly better than needing gas 24/7
rcxdude • yesterday at 11:56 AM
At this point, there's not that much other non-renewable generation on the UK grid, so expanding renewables will reduce the impact of gas on prices (though it'll likely be non-linear).
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We did not start to push for renwable energy to get prices lower, this is mainly a mitigation against previously unaccounted-for externalities (CO2 emissions and air pollution).
Complaining about transition costs, to me, is like complaining that industrial waste disposal was cheaper back when we just dumped everything into the next river.