Reply To: UK Gas and solar situation January 2025

[Eddie Cooper]

Rye House houses open cycle gas turbines (inefficient and higher carbon intensity hence last to be called onto the grid) commissioned in 1965 long before renewables were on the grid.

Such plants command high prices owing to be dormant for most of the year.

Nothing to do with wind or sun, but peaking plant using batteries is far cheaper, as the Australians have shown.

• This reply was modified 3 months, 2 weeks ago by  Eddie Cooper.