The United Kingdom is the one rich industrial country that cannot run on solar alone, and it has to build wind at scale instead.

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  Britain cannot live on its own renewables under its current lifestyle and consumption levels.

  MacKay concluded that Britain cannot live on its own renewables at current consumption. Handmer agrees the UK is the hard case and reaches the opposite conclusion: it is the one rich country that cannot do it with solar, and it can do it with wind, at prices he puts as low as $10/MWh. One says the island does not have the resource; the other says it has the wrong plan.

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