Tripartite electricity production

There's more to generating electricity than just wiring a bicycle up to a washing machine.

With the scale required to generate the shear volume of electricity this country needs we (as a nation) need large, expensive, power stations. That means we need good ideas about how to invest the large sums required in the kit to ensure that we get the right stuff.
After all - once it's there no one is going to want to pay to change it for many, many years.

That's why the governments requirements for electricity generation (placed upon the generating companies) are so important. They are:

Ending fuel poverty

Ensuring security of supply

Complying with climate change requirements
......within a competitive market.

That's three requirements superimposed upon the need for a competitive market.

I've just read an article in the Independent about the need for the UK to have a joined up energy policy. Couldn't agree with it more.

Interestingly they came to same conclusion as I did (perhaps I wouldn't have linked to them if they didn't?). We need Kingsnorth - obviously with conditions - but we need it badly.