Wind and solar's £1.5 billion electricity price cut

The Ecologist
Oct 19, 2015, 1:57 pm101 pts
The effect of wind and solar generation in the UK is to push down wholesale power prices, writes Oliver Tickell, taking over £1.5 billion off our bills in 2014 - that's 58% of the subsidies paid to renewable generators. Keep it up and the benefit will rise to over 100% of cost.

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