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Octopus Energy CEO Greg Jackson brands new nuclear a ‘fantasy future’ due to the high costs and impracticality of using hydrogen for heating. He believes that renewable energy forecasts have been revised upwards, indicating a more optimistic outlook for the future. Jackson's perspective on nuclear energy reflects a broader skepticism towards its role in the energy transition, emphasizing the need for more affordable and efficient renewable energy solutions.
Utility Week 27th April 2026
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TESLA: Today, 18 Megapacks arrived for Harmony Energy's 35MW / 70MWh Skeeby Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) in North Yorkshire, UK.
They will support UK energy security and help protect the grid from blackouts.
Next steps include grid cabling, final site works, and full commissioning ahead of planned energization this summer.
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Good morning with good news: Sodium-Ion-battery Age truly begins with CATL providing a massive 60 GWh for grid storage!
Sodium is ~1000 times more abundant than lithium.
CATL battery has NO cobalt & nickel.
Its cost advantages could be 30%-40%!
electrek.co/2026/04/27/cat…
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@JoeK1798 @XEnergyIreland Nuclear is the obvious solution to people who don't understand the problem
The investors who do understand the problem, and who are prepared to put their money on the table, are not looking to build nuclear
What do they know that you don't?
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@GameOnClimate @XEnergyIreland Irelands wind fleet operates at26% and in days like today really poor . We don’t have the topography for large scale hydro . We should be building pumped storage but Nuclear looks to be becoming the obvious solution . It’s countries with large proportions of VRE cost most
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€150 million for 0.126GW of wind in Ireland
€1,500 million for 1.26GW when you 10x it
€15,000 million for 1.2GW is estimate for an SMR that is being built in Canada
Nuclear is too expensive, takes too long to build and doesn't solve anything
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Climate scam' is what you call it when you can't understand basic atmospheric physics. The real scam is pretending 97% of climate scientists are all in on some conspiracy while you're just a free thinker who happens to parrot oil company talking points from the 1990s.
Barry Gadbois@BarryGadbois
@ChrisGloninger @epaleezeldin A fantastic win for Americans who aren't monetizing the climate scam.
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@JoeK1798 @XEnergyIreland Olkiluoto3 doesn't operate at close to 90% even with just planned downtime
When you add in all the unplanned downtime it can get closer to 75%
Olkiluoto4 was cancelled because the penny dropped
Nuclear is too costly, takes too long and doesn't deliver what the grid needs
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@GameOnClimate The problem with that argument is in Offaly you only get about 16% efficiency so your nameplate capacity is misleading the public . Nuclear operates at 90% . We keep adding capacity of wind but not output @XEnergyIreland
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Ocean heating is - literally - off the chart.
No time to wait. #ActOnClimate
#climate #energy #renewables #go100re
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"Let’s use science, engineering economics and environment, not ideology!!!"
It's only a couple of weeks ago that this particular MEP was arguing for nuclear
Great to see him doing a U turn now he has better information and putting economics ahead of ideology
Billy Kelleher MEP@BillyKelleherEU
For those that doubt. Denmark has made enormous strides in weaning itself off fossil fuel dependency. A population similar to ours, they harnessed wind/sun and developed biomethane to replace fossil gas. Let’s use science, engineering economics and environment, not ideology!!!
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@JoeK1798 @PeterSmartpower @businessposthq Modern grids don't need base load
It is a relic of the old paradigm
Batteries with (for now) gas backup is how we make the transition to a low cost, low pollution grid
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TheNewPhysics@CharlesMullins2
🚨 China may have just attacked one of clean energy’s biggest bottlenecks: Storage. Not with lithium. With iron. Read that again. A new all-iron flow battery reportedly ran 6,000 cycles with no capacity decay equivalent to ~16 years of daily use. And iron costs a fraction of lithium. Why this matters: Ultra-cheap grid storage Could make solar/wind far more dispatchable Water-based and non-flammable Designed for decades, not years But it gets wilder: The breakthrough was molecular. Researchers built a kind of electrostatic “force field” around iron chemistry to stop degradation and material crossover the two problems that held iron batteries back. That’s not just a battery advance. That’s materials physics rewriting energy economics. If cheap long-duration storage scales… what happens to the energy map? Follow me I track where physics becomes technology.
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@PeterSmartpower @GameOnClimate @businessposthq That’s the problem Peter at what cost ? Are we going to depend on interconnect-or for base load ?
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Some 43 per cent of people want Ireland’s ban on nuclear energy scrapped, a new Business Post/Red C Poll has shown. businesspost.ie/api/oc-post/?u…
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@Billy_Rogers13 @maccadoo8 @businessposthq @finbarmcd Making it legal doesn't make it economic, timely or viable
Look around the World
There's a very good reason why very few nukes are being built
What do the energy investment community know that you don't?
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@GameOnClimate @maccadoo8 @businessposthq @finbarmcd If we were to legalise nuclear now it would be the cleanest and cheapest for us in the long run
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"The 1.5-degree limit is only possible if we ultimately stop burning all fossil fuels.
Not reduce.
Not abate.
Phaseout."
@UN Secretary General @antonioguterres
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@JoeK1798 @PeterSmartpower @businessposthq Look around the World
New Nuclear is a tiny % of new build generation
What do the investor class know that you don't?
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Stefan Krauter@solarpapst
Atomkraft boomt weltweit? Die Fakten zeigen das Gegenteil.
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@GameOnClimate @PeterSmartpower @businessposthq Most submarines use this this technology for the past 50years with a long reliable service life , they are less efficient than full scale And personally I’d go full scale 4no1GW each and then see where the requirement for additional .
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@dermotheaney @businessposthq 25% of US nukes shut down before reaching 40 year design lifetime, including 9 which had obtained permission to run to 60 years
It might work, and it mightn't
It might be cost effective, and it mightn't
Is it a gamble worth taking with taxpayers money
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@GameOnClimate @businessposthq Nuclear plants don’t need 3–4 expensive refurbs,most run 40–60 yrs with one major life extension upgrade. Wind turbines on the other hand,need new gearboxes,blades, & full repow every 20–25 yrs,which is extremely costly,esp offshore. A football pitch will store full nuclear waste
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@JoeK1798 @PeterSmartpower @businessposthq We don't know what the downtime of SMRs will be because there are no commercial SMRs in operation yet
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Chris Meder@EVCurveFuturist
I’m not anti-nuclear. It’s proven, reliable, and safety fears are often overblown. But energy systems aren’t built on preference. They’re built on cost and speed. A new European system-level analysis shows: 👉 Renewables + firming: ~€46/MWh 👉 Nuclear: ~€100/MWh 👉 ~53% cheaper pv-magazine.com/2026/04/17/new… That’s including system costs. Now look at reality: Spain added ~10 GW of wind + solar in ONE year. Nuclear equivalent (Flamanville-style)? 👉 ~€80bn+ 👉 ~15–17 years Reality? 👉 ~€12–20bn 👉 Delivered in a year 👉 ~€60bn+ saved upfront Scale it: That ~27 GW “solar moment”? 👉 ~€220bn+ if nuclear 👉 ~€35–50bn real-world system 👉 ~€170bn+ cheaper And CSIRO GenCost backs it: Even with firming included, 👉 wind + solar = lowest-cost new build 👉 nuclear = materially higher 👉 SMRs = higher again So let’s be clear: This isn’t renewables vs nuclear. It’s: fast, modular, falling-cost systems vs slow, capital-heavy, rising-risk ones Faster Cheaper Already happening Not ideology. Math. Cost always wins 🏆 #Bettrification
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@PeterSmartpower @GameOnClimate @businessposthq with interconnect-or, it’s best to co locate two reactors on site for that reason if going full scale . SMRs are smaller down time . The wind fleet was forcasted to generated 42MW this morning. And the grid stayed going . Nuclear more reliable . Batteries >costs
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@dermotheaney @businessposthq 80 years with a reactor requires 3-4 expensive refurbs
80 years with turbines requires 2-3 inexpensive refurbs
The only issue with safety is the multi-generational cost of safety, esp managing the toxic waste
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Luigi Moccia@LuMo71
Ennesimo altro studio che mostra come il 100% rinnovabili costi molto meno di scenari che includono il nucleare Nota bene: il confronto è al 2050, quando alcuni (ottimisticamente) pensano che il nucleare costerà la metà di quanto costi oggi Tutto da vedere che il nucleare riesca in quelle riduzioni di costo, dato che è una fonte stagnante da un quarto di secolo Ma anche con questa ipotesi ottimistica, il 100% rinnovabili costerà la metà Sì, la metà includendo gli altri costi di sistema: l'accumulo, la trasmissione, etc. Non sono risultati nuovi, eh, c'è ormai ampia letteratura scientifica, checché ne dicano i nucleo-negazionisti, gli ultimi giapponesi dell'atomo
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@GameOnClimate @businessposthq 20 yrs with turbines, or 80 years with an reactor .. it might be more expensive but the land and sea area for wind is crazy , plus you need the wind to blow, and huge battery storage.
My only reservation is safety, (and that’s everyone’s) and that’s improved so much with nuclear
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@agricontract Borrow the T7 on semi-rowcrops from Bill and Joe
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@dermotheaney @businessposthq Twitter is about oversimplifying
Ireland has built 5GW out of the 9GW already, with 0.5GW under construction today and 2.5GW with planning permission
The €14 Billion is for the four (1.2GW)
Unfair to just quote the first 0.3GW as so much development cost frontloaded onto it
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@GameOnClimate @businessposthq You’re doing a lot of oversimplifying to make a side by side comparison.
IRELAND isn’t ‘starting’ any wind project , one is penciled in for 2030, and no price available presently, it may not happen
CANADA is building FOUR SmR’s not one power-technology.com/news/ontario-p…
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@JoeK1798 @PeterSmartpower @businessposthq The cons are the excessive cost, the excessive lead time, the lack of flexibility and the massive long term cost for future generations to manage the toxic waste for centuries after the plant has been shut down
What are the pros again?
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@PeterSmartpower @GameOnClimate @businessposthq If what to pair of you are saying is true you should have no problem debating the pros and cons of Nuclear . However when you see the likes of the IEA saying we should considering it we should have the debate .
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@dermotheaney @businessposthq There is one SMR about to be built in Canada
It received permission to pour the foundation on March 30th but still awaits two other permissions
If all goes well, they expect to build 1.2GW for about €14 Billion
In Ireland we are building 9GW of wind for €14 Billion
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@businessposthq A single nuclear SMR can power a town of around 100,000 people, (NuScale VOYGR‑1) with continuous electricity, at a cost of 3 billion, and at its the size of a bus!
Nuclear tech is moving so fast, still not sure I’d totally trust it yet
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