Reform UK leader Nigel Farage has said he thinks renewable energy should be called ‘intermittent energy’ due to the lack of storage ability.
Speaking on GB News Nigel Farage said: “Well, it was promised all through the election campaign, and it’s coming to pass.
“Yes, GB energy, and they’re teaming up with the Crown Estate so they can fast track the building and development of offshore wind turbines on a scale that only Boris Johnson could possibly have dreamt of, because this was very much his policy.
“The PR and spin around it is that by 2030 would have enough power for the equivalent of 20 million homes. Isn’t that marvellous? And the energy is going to be cheaper. Sounds amazing.
“The government also confirmed that great British energy will put £8.3 billion of public funding over the course of this Parliament into projects such as wind, solar, tidal wave energy, as well as battery storage, carbon capture and hydrogen development.
“You know, folks, I’ve been hearing some of this stuff for 25 years. I was told in 2000 in the European Parliament, ‘Just you wait, Nigel, battery storage for electricity. It’s all going to be sorted.’
“It hasn’t been. I’ve been told that hydrogen could be the miracle. I hope it is, but at the moment, we’re absolutely nowhere near it, and I do just wonder whether what we ought to call it is not renewable energy, but intermittent energy.
“Isn’t that at the heart of the problem, that it’s intermittent energy. You can’t store it effectively and it’s been damn expensive, so far.”
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