{"id":72481,"date":"2017-09-11T15:02:28","date_gmt":"2017-09-11T22:02:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/09\/uk-wind-electricity-cheaper-than-nuclear-data"},"modified":"2017-09-17T06:01:48","modified_gmt":"2017-09-17T13:01:48","slug":"uk-wind-electricity-cheaper-than-nuclear-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/09\/uk-wind-electricity-cheaper-than-nuclear-data","title":{"rendered":"UK wind electricity cheaper than nuclear: data"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/uk-wind-electricity-cheaper-than-nuclear-data.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The price of electricity from offshore wind in Britain has dipped below the level guaranteed to Hinkley Point, raising questions about the construction of the vast nuclear power station.<\/p>\n<p>The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy disclosed Monday the results of auctions for state subsidies for three new <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/wind\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">wind<\/a> offshore farms.<\/p>\n<p>Denmark\u2019s DONG Energy won the auction to build Hornsea Two, which will become the world\u2019s biggest offshore wind farm off the coast of Yorkshire in northern England.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2017-09-uk-electricity-cheaper-nuclear.html\">https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2017&#45;09-uk-electricity-cheaper-nuclear.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The price of electricity from offshore wind in Britain has dipped below the level guaranteed to Hinkley Point, raising questions about the construction of the vast nuclear power station. The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy disclosed Monday the results of auctions for state subsidies for three new wind offshore farms. Denmark\u2019s DONG Energy [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,873,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-nuclear-energy","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72481"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72481\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72594,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72481\/revisions\/72594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}