Article MoneyWeek19 Dec 2015 14:56
Read a full-page article on our Energy Market and the recent capacity auction in MoneyWeek yesterday, headlined 'Britain's energy policy mess'. Didn't mention Plutus by name but stated the details of the auction completed @ £18 per kilowatt. Centrica, SSE and Drax were awarded 46.35Gigawatts(GW) and 1.9GW to power plants still to be built, with 1.1GW to diesel-plants like ours.
It states these diesel-fired plants can be installed fast and are transportable(typically built into shipping containers). They can reach full load very quickly, typically 10 - 15 seconds from switch-on. However, it states they are very polluting when in operation but are a necessary evil while we phase out polluting coal plants and uncompetitive gas-fired ones. It states that it is not a long-term solution. It states the Sunday Times says 95 firms have submitted 150 planning applications for new 'diesel farms' - so we're not alone in this game, but IMO looks like this electricity generation is needed, even if rarely used, for at least the next 10 years or more.