By Peter Tremayne Cornwall’s Wave Hub could be sold next month. Cornwall Council thinks it has a deal and hopes to announce a buyer within weeks. The Hayle-based project, which…
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Cornwall’s Wave Hub is about to become a Wind Hub – and could have a new owner next month
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You’re probably going to be proved right about the fragility of Branson’s goals to become a space supremo. However, on this occasion, I am sure you’ll be proved too cynical, even if there are teething problems with things like the grid. The economics of wind mean that offshore wind is becoming competitive and avoids a lot of the planning problems which go with land-based wind. Cornwall has both wind and water. We will find our niche – and that hub off Hayle will finally find a use.
I hope you are right, but the infrastructure still needs investment. Producing wind energy is one thing, ensuring we all can use it is another.
And how will Cornwall’s grid cope? Already at capacity how will the grid move the electricity onward. Noone can site a wind turbine in Cornwall unless it is used to directly provide an end user. Much work to be done… and much investment needed in the infrastructure and electrification of energy.