UK urged to ditch "unreliable" wind turbines for nuclear power

 From: Greenbang Clean Tech & Business News: November 25, 2008

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The government should shift its investment in renewable energy away from ‘unreliable’ wind power to nuclear and carbon capture and storage to avoid putting the security of the UK’s energy supply at risk. That’s according to a report, The Economics of Renewable Energy, by the House of Lords Economic Affairs Committee on the government’s plan to generate 15 per cent of the UK’s energy from renewable sources to meet EU targets by 2020.

The nuclear question refuses to go away and while many sources of renewable energy remain either expensive to produce or are unsuitable for large-scale commercial generation - or both - it’s going to remain a tough one for the green lobby to dismiss. Wind turbines are still the most readily available source of increases in renewable electricity but the Lords Committee says until satisfactory and commercially viable storage mechanisms are introduced wind power cannot be relied upon to generate electricity when it is needed.