Joan McAlpine: Time politicians warmed to a debate over energy
The Scotsman Wednesday 19th January, 2011
"It cannot be right that electricity from a hydro-scheme in the Highlands costs more than electricity generated by coal near London."Why not? Hydro stations are expensive to build, limited in output and capacity, and need maintenance. When you figure all that in it is not surprising that they actually turn out expensive.Not that this matters to an individual consumer of course; you don't buy from the power station nearest you, it all goes into one pot and you (or your supplier) pay the marginal cost of the most expensive station needed to keep the lights on."It is an even bigger disgrace that the transmission charges Scotland pays are then used to subsidise England"This is false."Scotland" does not pay anything."Generators in Scotland" do pay higher transmission charges, for perfectly soun...
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