There are sites in Cornwall already 30+ years and still producing well.

Although at a time of a housing crisis, it should be argued high density housing on a generally well connected, brownfield site with amenities within walking distance is an absolute no brainer.

See Bristol Sport - Football, rugby, basketball and motor racing. Although in that case it has led to arguments of distractions and spreading resources too thin. Bristol City Women recently getting outside investment. Ground - main asset of Bristol Sport - has higher usage as shared across sports.

Good news, although I guess they won't get up as far as Bristol?

8kW? That's 1kW per panel?

Frustratingly this doesn't appear to be on YT Music/Podcasts or Deezer. Any plans to add to these?

Or even the actual evidence of 20+ year old offshore wind farms in UK (30+ years onshore) - and even longer in Denmark etc!

Given my "Nest Aware" sometimes struggle to distinguish between a 3 year old boy and almost 70 year old lady, I don't have the greatest confidence in this!

The price differential has reduced significantly. At present the VW Golf is from £28k, the equivalent electric car is the VW ID3 and that starts at just under £31k so is about 10% more expensive. However with this latest subsidy offered by the government, the price difference will disappear.

They are different matters though. 99% of the time I don't actively need to charge my car, it just does so when I'm parked normally (at home, in public car parks, supermarket, work, hotel overnight etc). On the rare occasions I need to charge on a very long journey, it typically takes 10-15 minutes.

Electric cars don't necessarily need this subsidy, but if you look at the details it is specifically targetted at cars produced in countries with low electricity emissions / without coal power. It is therefore in effect a subsidy to cars manufactured in GB and certain other European markets.

Surely the same can be said of diesel or petrol cars?

The ability of Trump - or the US more generally - is extremely limited anyway. Even before IRA was repealed the US was probably ~5% of global deployment. china was on track to install about 10x more solar and wind in 2025 and China would also be exporting the same again in terms of solar panels.

I believe there was an unusually early start to the monsoon leading to reduced electricity demand (cooler temps) and increased hydro and wind generation.

DESNZ is notoriously slow to update; I was personally responsible for a very large ground mounted site which has been generating for months (maybe even over a year) before DESNZ reflected it in their operational statistics. Hardly hidden - numerous press releases etc!

Retail energy hasn't been very successful - look at the number of retailers who went bust. Where massive / windfall profits have been made is in the production of energy. There is a reason 2 of the largest companies in the UK are BP and Shell - neither of which supply domestic gas or electricity.