Energy Suppliers, Suppliers of Energy. Gas / Electric

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Have plenty of folk who work in power generation who all have 'I told you so' plastered all over their faces since the 2009 directive to end big coal generation.

Instead of countries like ours putting on new nuclear (my former career, ended due to UK flip flopping around so many times on new nuclear), an actual useful amount of renewable, infrastructure investment to get that wind power to the peoples. We/they/the gov/the power companies/Rishi's secret investment portfolio, just bought thousands of small scale gas turbines in pre made units and plugged them in all over the country in places where there was a mains gas pipeline and a backbone to the grid nearby (used to live near two of these sites).

Technically 'cleaner' air coming out of them vs kwh generated vs old coal. But new coal was pretty good at the exhaust emissions, and a lot of this green wash has ignored the demolition of old stations, remedial work to make the land useful again (most will always be damaged) and then the absolute tonne of materials and labour required and cost (which has a carbon output obviously) to build new mini gas power stations all over the place. Yes a smaller green house emission at exhaust point, but that ignores the rest.

And the immediate cost to us all is gas power generation sucking up a lot more natural gas than it was ever designed for = supply and demand = rise in unit cost. Also other factors, but I'm just looking at the elephant and making sure everyone else see's it too?

We are making our new flat totally electric for heat and hot water. The option for gas WAS there, but we decided not to take it, gas price 1/4 to 1/5th that of electric kwH for kwH. So the running cost was always going to be higher. But basically ALL of the electricity for that town comes from wind turbines and we have spent a lot of money and time insulating the absolute crap out of the place. Only for the unit price of electric to sore so high, we are now looking to install a gas system AS WELL*

*sorry planet, we tried. But can't stomach £25 a day to heat a 2 bed flat.