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April 13, 2021
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No Contest: Never Reliable Wind & Solar Can’t Compete with Ever Reliable Coal-Fired Power
Then, along came coal-fired power, and they were history.
Renewables acolytes have been massaging the numbers for years, in an attempt to show that wind and solar power are the cheapest of all.
The standard bag of tricks includes ignoring the capital cost of having every single (unreliable) megawatt of wind or solar constantly backed up by another (reliable) megawatt of coal, gas, nuclear or hydro; refusing to acknowledge the cost to power consumers of mandated targets, tax breaks and/or massive direct subsidies that exclusively benefit wind and solar; ignoring the additional transmission costs of bringing intermittent and diffuse sources of energy from remote locations (where they’re produced) to the cities where the power is consumed; and dis
Construction News asked figures from throughout the industry what construction should prepare for in the New Year. Here’s what they had to say.
Costain group safety, health and environment director Lawrence Webb
“The spectre of COVID is still hanging over us and I would absolutely reinforce messages that I’ve heard from my health, safety and environment colleagues all across our industry for many months now and that is: please maintain your focus on the wellbeing of us as individuals, as teams and as an industry. Our physical and mental wellbeing is absolutely key to us all getting through this. Please keep up with the Construction Leadership Council guidance, government instruction. Let’s do this together and rid the world of this horrific situation. Alongside that, the other area is […] the carbon agenda. This is a key area for the future of all of us. If we don’t reduce our carbon impacts […] then we’re on a very slippery slope where the clock is absolutely ticki