Look on it as a measure of how much electricity they are producing.
PLease do tell ! 
Falstaff
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at least the queen gets 15% of the seabed rental for the offshore ones
the onshore ones only seem to be profitable from the feed in subsidies.
better than the deals with nukes where the company gets the profits and we pay for the tidy up later(see the state of play at sellawinddriggscale etc) |
Sorry I'm reading and re-reading, but getting nothing but Blurb ! - Please do rephrase your point ! 
dpack
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iirc every megawatt is subsidized by about 40% added to the price of the leccy squirted into the grid.
but in the case of offshore ,the company involved (we cant ask is the shareholders also get rent on the seabed) often gets the electric price,the feed in subsidy for green energy and gov backed loans ,easy planning ,subsidized shipyard work to build and deliver the kit etc .
with no subsidies(rental aspect) off shore would be marginal and onshore would often be a loss maker or at best a very long term investment as onshore has a practical output of about a third of the rated capacity as the wind is often too slow or too fast or too variable in strength and direction.
moving water has a lot of potential but clean energy isnt the prime motivation of the peeps who invest in such things
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dpack
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at least the queen gets 15% of the seabed rental for the offshore ones
the onshore ones only seem to be profitable from the feed in subsidies.
better than the deals with nukes where the company gets the profits and we pay for the tidy up later(see the state of play at sellawinddriggscale etc) |
Sorry I'm reading and re-reading, but getting nothing but Blurb ! - Please do rephrase your point !
the crown estate gets the sea bed rentals in territorial waters .in exchange for giving up the civil list queenie asked for 15% of the crown estate revenues ,at the time it seemed a good deal for the public as most of the crown estate is gov buildings ,mod used stuff etc etc but the other party saw where the future lay.
the new batch of nukes are overtly owned by french and chinese companies,placed on old magnox sites and there are no gnts that the companies involved will clean up the sites,any unpleasantness or fuel production/disposal issues.
the sellafield site has been mismanaged by the commercial group earning billions and is being taken into public care for the foreseeable future to improve safety and reduce the waste of money .
ps the crown estate revenues also includes charging for licenses for fracking oil and gas (and i think ucg/methane extraction but the rules on messing in coal seems are a bit older than the new extreme energy stuff)
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