All EVs are affected by the market drop in price. The MG5 I looked at were nearly all up in the 50-70k mileage so obviously were business cars/taxis. I suspect that the ordinary guy in the street just compare the price of electricity with diesel at the moment without digging into the type of deal we get with our electricity. If you were looking to go electric with a second hand car now really is the time. By October electricity prices will be down to 20p a kWh. The day ahead prices fell below 70p last week for the first time for 15 months and if we get some wind they will fall even more quickly. At the same time Octopus who had priced overnight electricity at 10.5p on some tariffs are now offering it at 7.5p again. If like me you follow the off shore construction of wind farms you will know that slow progress continues on Neart na Goithe off the coast north of Dunbar, SeaGreen 1 is nearing completion, it isn't clear hoe efficient they have been at getting power ashore, I don't think too good. There have been gaps in the strings of turbines, normally 6-8 are connected together and then to the offshore transformer to be linked to the shore but it looks as though less than half of the 116 turbines are producing power and it could be as low as 45. In which case in 6-8 weeks time we might see a leap of 800MW joined to the Grid. The latest news is that Jan de Nuul's new heavy lift vessel the Voltaire has reached the Dogger Bank A wind farm. Seabed to tippy top the ship is taller than the Eiffel tower and is installing 14MW turbines. It carries 8 at a time and whilst the lifts might take a bit longer the overall speed on the project will be fast with 8 turbines in place every 12-14 days. First power is expected at the end of June and the 76 turbines expected to be in place by the end of September. Dogger Bank B will follow immediately with another 76 turbines expected to be in place by January/February. These 4 wind farms have a total output of 4 GW. At the same time the Viking wind farm on Shetland will be completed and connected to the mainland by December adding a further 450 MW of power with an expected output of 70% of nameplate power.
Last winter the record 22GW of power was produced from wind farms. This coming winter we can expect 25-26 GW record to be broken. National Grid ESO have said that in 2026 they expect renewables and nuclear to be the only source of electricity for days at at a time. X-link, the wind and solar farm in Morocco should come on line in 2027. That will have a big battery to ensure that the 3.6GW output is continuous. So whilst we can expect the demand for electricity to rise, so far the rise has't had a big impact on generation, the price over last winter encouraged us all to be Scrooge like with our demand and I suspect that we will have got back in the habit of not wasting it!
said I would keep what I’ve got…. 5k May of been tempted.
