Hydrogen or low capex thermal.
The UK has adequate salt formations for large scale storage of hydrogen.
The UK has adequate salt formations for large scale storage of hydrogen.
Good if they can get it to work; there's also a hydrogen/ammonia storage scheme being planned; https://www.statkraft.co.uk/newsroom/2025/statkraft-shares-p...
I think it's going to take a while, but certainly worth trying.
Nuclear is endless clean energy. Why do people like you keep ruining everything? If it wasn't for you, we'd have had full nuclear by 1980. No oil problems, no terrorist states, no dubai.
The huge advantage of hydrogen here is that a gas turbine power plant might cost $600/kW, a tiny fraction of the cost of a nuclear power plant. So if you have a need for a backup plant whose cost will be dominated by amortization of its fixed cost, hydrogen beats nuclear.
The UK hasn’t had any nuclear waste problems?
It might be the solution but pretending it’s perfect is how we got here.