{"id":371826,"date":"2026-03-29T19:32:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-29T19:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/371826\/"},"modified":"2026-03-29T19:32:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T19:32:08","slug":"an-energy-revolution-is-in-the-wind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/371826\/","title":{"rendered":"An energy revolution is in the wind"},"content":{"rendered":"<p role=\"text\" tabindex=\"0\" class=\"is_Paragraph font_caslonIonic _dsp-inline _bxs-border-box _ww-break-word _mt-0px _mr-0px _mb-0px _ml-0px _ff-f-family _fw-f-weight-3048 _fs-f-size-18 _lh-f-lineHeigh3500605 _col-grey_600 _select-auto _ws-normal\">It\u2019s a revolution. There are certainly hidden costs to renewable power. \ufeffA core, steady electricity supply, independent of changing weather, is vital. This will become increasingly available as the nuclear power station Hinkley C comes on stream in 2030\ufeff; then through small modular nuclear reactors where Britain is a pioneer, the first of which has been commissioned from Rolls-Royce SMR, in Anglesey (Ynys M\u00f4n); and then Sizewell\u00a0C. Even so, \ufefffor \ufeffdays \ufeffthat are calm or \ufeffhave short\ufeff daylight hours, the potential electricity production capacity will have to be supplemented by \ufeffsomething that can readily be turned on and \ufeffoff, which is not true of nuclear. Step in expensive fossil fuels, which offer such flexibility \u2013 but whose role, while crucial, will be marginal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s a revolution. There are certainly hidden costs to renewable power. \ufeffA core, steady electricity supply, independent of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":371827,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[28596,580,246,61,60,3400,82,7617,1577],"class_list":["post-371826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-ed-miliband","tag-energy","tag-environment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-renewable-energy","tag-science","tag-solar-power","tag-uk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=371826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371826\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/371827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=371826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=371826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=371826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}