Member

Who is going to pay for the infrastructure? It will be paid for by consumers. And then, of course, because the wind does not always blow and the sun does not always shine, we will have to keep fossil fuel stations going. Only two weeks ago, the head of the grid network indicated that there would need to be “a significant amount” of power plants in reserve for the cold, dull, windless weeks of winter, but that they would run for only limited periods. That is the problem. They will only run for limited periods, but they will need to be maintained. They will have to be turned on to supply electricity for those short periods, at about 20 times the cost of running them continuously. To do away with fossil fuel production, we will keep those plants and there will therefore be additional costs. We have to keep them for when the wind does not blow hard enough, and we will have to pay out when the wind blows too hard.