Simon Brooke<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.green/@christineburns" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>christineburns</span></a></span> If, instead, we sold that electricity cheapest where it is cheaply generated – at cost, perhaps, of curtailing industrial **customers** in those areas on those rare occasions when the tide is slack and the wind isn't blowing – we'd move investment in energy intensive industries, and consequently jobs, into those remote coastal regions, reduce their endemic fuel poverty, and decrease the need for expensive new grid infrastructure.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/ScotPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ScotPol</span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Decolonisation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Decolonisation</span></a></p><p>/Ends</p>