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My blog post attempts to explain how locational pricing will discourage wind development in the windy areas Indeed locational pricing will make it the opposite of what you say, ie make wind development only possible in less windy areas where it is much more difficult to get planning consent. I don't know that a lot of energy -intensive industries will welcome being forced to move north, but the effect on renewable energy is going to be very negative, that's the key point

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Dear Philip, I can understand people thinking that data centres want to be next to big energy generators given all the publicity about this topic, but really this is a lot of hype generated by some tech tycoons for their own political reasons, in my estimation. In reality data centres locate themselves for a range of other factors. About half of them in other UK are in London for example. There's been far too much hype about data centres in general really, something which I have discussed in a previous post. See 'How data centres will cut carbon emissions, not increase them' https://davidtoke.substack.com/p/how-data-centres-will-cut-carbon

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