It doesnвЂ™t necessarily mean itвЂ™s a sensible or even practical way to proceed.ДECC evolved mostly from the need to have a government department exclusively involved in the decommissioning of old nuclear power plants and the disposal of radioactive nuclear power plant waste and waste nuclear fuel. Because you assume that you will have lots of new nuclear power, you need to have new nuclear power. If new nuclear power can be built, it will generate on a consistent basis, and so, to gain the benefit of self-sufficiency, you will want to transfer all energy demand to electricity. If you want to convert all heating and cooling and transport to electricity, and you want to have few energy imports, then you will need to have a high level of new nuclear power. The call for new nuclear power is basically a tautological argument centring on a proposal to transition to meet all energy demand by power generation resources, and the presumption of vastly increasing energy independence.

The UK Government have been pursuing new fission nuclear power with reams of policy manoeuvres. Plus, the financial liabilities of the nuclear section of DECC mean itвЂ™s just going to bring the rest of the department down unless thereвЂ™s a divorce. Why ? Because nuclear power in the UK has nothing to do with answering the risk of climate change, despite some public relations type people trying to assert its вЂњlow carbonвЂќ status.

IвЂ™d recommend that he call for the immediate separation of the department into two distinct and individually funded business units : Nuclear and The Rest. ThereвЂ™s a huge and dirty intray awaiting this poor fellow, including the demonstrable failings of the Energy Act thatвЂ™s just been signed into law. So, the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) have a new top dog вЂ“ Alex Chisholm вЂ“ formerly the attack beast in charge of putting pressure on the electricity utility companies over their pricing rip-offs when at the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA).

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