Are you maybe comparing cost of gas as fuel with total cost? We will have a short period of low gas prices because there is oversupply of LNG projects coming online but that can turnaround easily. Flips in geo politics and crisis are popping up all the time.
The government is turning a £55 gas price into £147 by adding an arbitrary carbon tax, and therefore making it look artificially more expensive than wind.
If we wanted to make an honest analysis here, we would say "gas is significantly less than expensive than the strike price agreed for wind, but some believe the externalities of gas generation could be signficant"
When you're trying to sell wind power to the public as a "cheaper" source of energy than fossil fuels, you've got to be honest with them if you want to win both hearts and minds.
Gas is cheaper, like-for-like.
We impose special taxes on gas, making it artificially more expensive, in order to manipulate the market into reducing use of fossil fuel.
There. That's all that needs to be said. If you're honest with people they're more likely to trust you, and join you in your endeavours.
The high cost of gas is entirely politically-driven, as Reform UK will prove when they take office in 2029.
