By: Royston Black

Royston Black — Mon, 29 Jun 2020 14:28:40 +0000

I think you are quoting gross energy demand which includes fuel and gas when you should be quoting electricity demand which is only around 390TWh this should be achievable through renewables and nuclear even with significant demand changes through electrification of heat and transport.

By: New Power

New Power — Fri, 26 Jun 2020 14:15:28 +0000

What’s the reasoning for the 60% load factor for the EPRs?

By: David Dundas

David Dundas — Fri, 19 Jun 2020 15:55:00 +0000

By 2050 the UK’s energy must be supplied by green electricity. In 2018 according to the latest BEIS data, total energy demand was 2,226 TWh and rising, while renewables were only 84.6 TWh and nuclear 76.6 TWh. It may be possible to increase our renewables by say 5 times to 500 TWh but space on land and sea will be a limiting factor; that leaves a huge deficit of 1,726 TWh that can only be bridged by nuclear as it is the only other source of zero carbon energy. Hinkley Point C and Sizewell C will each produce 16.8 TWh at 60% load capacity, so you would need more than 100 of them up and running by 2050 which is very unlikely to happen. The best way to deliver much more affordable nuclear power is to give a massive support to the roll-out of small modular reactors (SMRs) that can be mass produced and delivered by heavy road transport and used to retrofit gas powered power stations, which saves the cost of the steam and electricity generation and distribution equipment already installed. We have less than 30 years to do it.

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