{"id":52466,"date":"2020-08-27T09:22:22","date_gmt":"2020-08-27T08:22:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=52466"},"modified":"2020-08-27T09:22:22","modified_gmt":"2020-08-27T08:22:22","slug":"renewables-pay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2020\/08\/27\/renewables-pay\/","title":{"rendered":"Renewables pay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The government has just revised its official estimates of the cost of electricity generation, again. According to Carbon Briefing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.carbonbrief.org\/wind-and-solar-are-30-50-cheaper-than-thought-admits-uk-government\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">these are the new estimates<\/a>, with some old data for comparison:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-52467\" src=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Screenshot-2020-08-27-at-09.19.19-550x363.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"363\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Screenshot-2020-08-27-at-09.19.19-550x363.png 550w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Screenshot-2020-08-27-at-09.19.19-455x300.png 455w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Screenshot-2020-08-27-at-09.19.19-768x506.png 768w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Screenshot-2020-08-27-at-09.19.19-1536x1013.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Screenshot-2020-08-27-at-09.19.19-600x396.png 600w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Screenshot-2020-08-27-at-09.19.19.png 1632w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>But still they don't want to place the emphasis on renewables.<\/p>\n<p>And it's still carbon capture and storage and nuclear that are out supposed lifelines.<\/p>\n<p>Politely, no, they're not.<\/p>\n<p>We need a Green New Deal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The government has just revised its official estimates of the cost of electricity generation, again. According to Carbon Briefing these are the new estimates, with<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2020\/08\/27\/renewables-pay\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-green-new-deal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52466\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}