I agree it is good that folk are waking up to the fact that some engineering is needed, and that some of our electrical infrastructure is a bit creaky already, without adding a significant extra load, quite a lot of it is more than 50 years old.
I am not sure of your price estimates. Given that car tax (vehicle excise duty) brings in 6.5 billion /year (ref. here ) and fuel taxes currently bring in about 28 billion/year ( ref. here ).
Taking your numbers, then we need infrastructure that will last a few decades to make it worthwhile from the treasury perspective, and that assumes make owning an electric vehicle roughly the same cost to the end user as a traditional one, at the moment a significant incentive to use an electric vehicle is that it is much cheaper.
Equally new generation projects seem to be costed in price per MWhr generated, which makes immediate comparisons a bit hard when we do not know how long they will last.
an example of confusing reporting These 'strike prices' are always a bit off compared to the retail price - even a high £100 per MW/Hr is only 10p per retail unit (kwH).
I agree it is good that folk are waking up to the fact that some engineering is needed, and that some of our electrical infrastructure is a bit creaky already, without adding a significant extra load, quite a lot of it is more than 50 years old.
I am not sure of your price estimates. Given that car tax (vehicle excise duty) brings in 6.5 billion /year (ref. here ) and fuel taxes currently bring in about 28 billion/year ( ref. here ).
Taking your numbers, then we need infrastructure that will last a few decades to make it worthwhile from the treasury perspective, and that assumes make owning an electric vehicle roughly the same cost to the end user as a traditional one, at the moment a significant incentive to use an electric vehicle is that it is much cheaper.
Equally new generation projects seem to be costed in price per MWhr generated, which makes immediate comparisons a bit hard when we do not know how long they will last.
an example of confusing reporting These 'strike prices' are always a bit off compared to the retail price - even a high £100 per MW/Hr is only 10p per retail unit (kwH).
