
Will Energy Bills Continue To Rise? With Simon Evans
The Fully Charged Podcast
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Is There a Different Way to Organize the Market?
A day recently, we just knocked 62% of our electricity demand on a weekday on a normal working day was from wind. So even if it's only a small percentage, as long as there is a gas plant switched on somewhere, then that's going to set the price. The government wants to have a completely clean electricity grid by 2035. That's fundamentally rewiring the electricity market. And if you do big disruptive change in the electricity market at the same time as asking investors to pour billions into investing in it, when they don't know what the market's going to look like, that's disruptive.
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