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Say hello to the new government, same as the old government.
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Most instances labeled as “closed” are in fact merely gated. Eg beehaw.org was never really closed, they just had an approval process that delayed getting your account.
Really it should prompt an election.
I work very closely in renewables. The state in England is laughable, far too much NIMBY. They installed a turbine at Avonmouth, celebrate it as the biggest onshore yet, but it’s tiny compared to Scotland.
However, it must be said that these are all commercial enterprises. They don’t exist to be green, they are private businesses that exist to make money.
Aside from places like Awel Aman Tawe. That was a nice community funded twin turbine windfarm where all the money went to the local community. They had a local rugby player kick a ball over the blades to open it, and they have school groups visit with this janky exercise bike that kids can peddle to light a bulb or charge their phone.
But the rest of them are all about money. They should pay back more to community. They shouldn’t be used as a selling point so you can pay more for your electricity while the provider is in fact paying less by getting the cheapest energy produced on the market.
The disassociation between generation and consumption in commercial markets only means that end users pay far more than they should.
It’s not too late to make money. Now that the ROCCs are gone, we can have even more foreign businesses (rather than small local communities) generating on our land while contributing minimal amounts to local economies!
But at least it’s better than all the STOR projects hidden behind tall wooden fences, burning gas or diesel in small amounts, spread all over the country. That’s what we’ve been replacing big coal reactors with these last few years…
If they only have it set to “Undetermined”, then they probably won’t see it. However you can select multiple languages. So if they have both “English” and “Undetermined” then they will see posts with either of those.
In Jerboa I sometimes have issues where it won’t let me comment and gives an error about language, but Jerboa doesn’t let you select the language of your reply. On the website you can set the language and get around this error.
Indeed it does. And in fact, renewable generation is some of the cheapest on the generation market - it is highly competitive while still being insanely profitable (fuel is by far the biggest cost over the total life of a traditional generator, and renewables have no fuel cost). My biggest issue is that this is not reflected at all in the consumer market - all of the savings is taken away from the consumer, who continues to pay ever increasing prices.