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Why renewable energy is still so expensive

28 September 2022

“Electricity is an essential commodity which is really hard to store,” said Professor Michael Grubb (UCL Institute for Sustainable Resources), explaining how the UK energy market is structured to allow the highest costing energy source set the market price.

Listen: BBC Radio 4 ‘Costing the Earth’ (from 1 min 39 secs)