Less offshore wind = more CO2, even more £££

Extra gas burn would boost UK power emissions by a quarter at a cost of £1 billion every year

A couple of weeks back, Energy Flux calculated that the UK’s failure to hit its 2030 offshore wind target could cost £2-3 billion per year. That calculation covered only the cost of burning more gas to replace an assumed 10GW wind shortfall; it did not account for the carbon cost of this unplanned gas power generation. When you add the cost of CO2, the …