The EU has an emissions trading regime (must find out about this sometime), and apparently prices are up... EU CO2 Emission Prices Hit New Record High says Planetark. Higher gas/oil prices makes burning coal more economical, which is more CO2 intensive, so quota prices rise. And its been dry so hydropower is down. Time for the Severn barrage!
Still, I wonder what fraction of the price 30E/tonne is.
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Funny that, you just never hear about the Severn Barrage anymore even though it could produce about 7% of UK electricity, I thought.
Actually, it's been in the news just recently:
http://news.google.com/news?q=severn+barrage+proposal&num=20&hl=en&lr=&…