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Green Energy and The Grid with Graeme Cooper

The Fully Charged Podcast

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The Martin vs the Pieces

Between now and 2050, the UK will consume each year twice what it does now. We need roughly four times the amount of clean power than we have today. And conversely, that means we need roughly twice the grid capacity. So there's two signs at the same calling: You need to spend more on the wires; but the net benefit is you access lots more cheap, clean power that depresses the price. But people are often reluctant to flag that they need help, right? Yes. With a new Prime Minister coming up, that's probably going to be job number one, which is how do we get through this winter? Yeah. If you are in that set of dire stra

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