The House of Lords Science and Technology Committee is going to take evidence on an inquiry into the cost of renewable energy next week. As usual the witnesses are largely going to be delivering the message that Parliamentarians want to hear, namely that everything is fine and dandy with renewables. This is, however, one of those racy occasions on which they allow someone who is a critic to show their face and so Gordon Hughes is to appear as well. As is normal on these occasions they make sure that the critic appears opposite plenty of people likely to take the opposite view, so on the same panel there is Richard Green, who wrote a rebuttal to Hughes' paper on the decline of wind turbine performance over time and the head of the Renewable Energy Association.
Witnesses
Tuesday 18 November, Committee Room 4A, Palace of Westminster
At 10.40am:
- Dr Nina Skorupska, CEO, Renewable Energy Association;
- Professor Richard Green, Professor of Sustainable Energy Business, Imperial College London; and
- Professor Gordon Hughes, Professor of Economics, University of Edinburgh
At 11.40am:
- Professor Jon Gibbins, Professor of Power Plant Engineering and Carbon Capture, University of Edinburgh;
- Dr Keith MacLean, Honorary Fellow of Energy Policy, University of Exeter; and
- Professor William Nuttall, Professor of Energy, Open University
More details here.