Politics is the only explanation I can offer for the desire to make steel and high energy (electricity) costs – no coherent strategy for UK PLC.
Although high energy costs does explain the UK’s paucity of primary steel production From: Van Snyder [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: 18 October 2025 22:15 To: Martin Bishop <[email protected]>; General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [cctalk] Re: Waaaay OT: Re: Re: Classic computing - earliest years On Sat, 2025-10-18 at 21:24 +0000, Martin Bishop wrote: the headline closure a year ago was the Port Talbot blast furnaces - reputedly to be replaced by electric arc furnaces Good luck keeping them going with solar and wind. When the electricity stops and the mill freezes, about all you can do is scrap it and build a new one. And when the electricity is occasionally working, its price is three times what they pay in France or Finland.
