The government’s key measure of electricity generation costs has been described as a “blunt instrument” by an MP who is championing plans to use the Mersey for a pilot tidal power project. Mick Whitley, Labour MP for Birkenhead, called for a rethink of the levelised cost of energy (LCOE) mechanism, which he claims hinders technologies such as tidal.
Generation cost measure labelled ‘blunt instrument’
