TY - JOUR
AB - DOI:10.1002/cind.833_11.x COMMENT Cheaper, cleaner energy? Capell Aris energy systems engineer and author ccording to news reports, Elizabeth cheaper and a grid that was vastly more robust of the GWPF report on Truss, the chief secretary to the to the threat of blackouts. But perhaps more A Cheaper, Cleaner UKTreasury, is on the warpath against importantly, the cumulative carbon dioxide Electricity System Awhite elephant projects. It seems she emissions of the grid would have been 450m t wants to ‘weed out’ projects that are failing or lower. have become outdated. This conclusion is somewhat If that’s the case then she would do well counterintuitive, but the explanation is If we had to take a look at how the UK generates its relatively straightforward. Renewables simply electricity. It has long been clear that the vast wreck the economics of all the other operators phased subsidies paid to renewable-energy generators on the grid: their wildly fluctuating output are unsustainable. forces coal and gas-fired power stations, mostly out coal- The government has closed the main subsidy designed to run steady, to fluctuate too, in schemes to new entrants, but their intention to order to balance supply and demand. Their fired power continue to 
TI - Cheaper, cleaner energy?
JO - Chemistry & Industry
DO - 10.1002/cind.833_11.x
DA - 2019-01-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/wiley/cheaper-cleaner-energy-HmIzQetbHt
SP - 37
EP - 37
VL - 83
IS - 3
DP - DeepDyve
ER -