At lower prices, electricity production from offshore wind farms is expected to move compared to the production of electricity from natural gas in the United Kingdom until 2023, according to a Carbon Brief analysis published shortly after Announcement of the results of the third cycle for "contracts in dispute" (Contract for Difference-CfD).

The price per MWh for the offshore wind farms planned to be completed in 2023/2024 reached 36.64 pounds in a competition. This is priced at 2012 and translated to 44 pounds/MWh if we adjust inflation. According to the CfD model, power plants ensure a stable price for 15 years.

If the reference value goes below it, then they receive a subsidy. But if the wholesale market price is higher, they pay the difference. Significant progress has also been made in reducing the cost of offshore wind, as in the first wind sea projects in the UK's open sea with CfDs the price was at 150 pounds per MWh at 2012 prices.



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This is the first time that a purely electric car such as Tesla Model 3 is ranked 3rd in the overall ranking of the top 10 selling models in Britain, where it is the second largest car market in Europe after Germany. So, on August with 2,082 sales the Tesla Model 3 was found in front of the Ford Focus which was in 4th place as well as the Mercedes A-Class found in the 5th place of the model table in the highest sales.

The success of the smaller Tesla model "launched" and the total sales of electric cars in Britain that rose by 337% and amounted to 3,147 units. The record was greeted by environmentalists who have pointed out that: "Tesla Model 3 was the car found in the 3rd place of the highest-selling model table".


The Tesla Model 3 was also Europe's most popular electric car in the first half with sales amounting to 37,227 units, according to JATO Dynamics data. Renault Zoe was found in second place with 23,914 units followed by the Nissan Leaf.


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by Mo Halim

My guardian bought one of the first Minis. She loved cars and had been driving since the early 30s in pre-war Malaya. She drove with panache and verve; fast and precise yet so relaxed. She had bought one the first Minis after she was invited to its public debut at a theatre in Birmingham. But after a succession of MGs it was too pedestrian for her driving style. So when the Mini Cooper came out, she immediately bought one.

She had four in succession, red, green, white, turquoise preferring the plain bog standard Mini Cooper with its 998 c.c. 55 bhp engine fed by twin SU carburettors to the extreme 1,275 c.c. Cooper S’s. The only extras were a spot light and a yellow fog light on the front bumper. She thought a Cooper S would be just a bit too showy for a lady in her 60s. But not the Cooper, which she reckoned was quite the perfect Q car for her, and for me.

Once I got my licence, I drove in rain, fog, sunshine, snow, sleet, hail, ice, even forded small streams. I relished every moment of it and of course got to know the car extremely well. ML, that's my guardian, who had been driving since the early 1930s was an enthusiastic driver. She drove with panache and verve; fast and precise yet so relaxed, exactly what I aspired to. She was an excellent mentor, being formerly an English teacher and later a director of education in The Colonies, and gave useful tips on how to handle a car, drive smoothly, anticipation, patience, courtesy to other road users.

ML even taught me two rather archaic skills now lost on the younger generation of motorists; how to double-declutch and how to heel-and-toe. Oh, just in case I had to drive a car with no synchromesh as she did in her youth out in pre-independent Malay and the Straits Settlements dodging bullock carts, cows, goats (and) people in her MG TA tanked up on aviation fuel. Of course I meant the MG, not ML!

She also encouraged me to get used to driving with just the right hand from time to time, the way I had often seen her do when she had a lit Players in the left hand. The Players, 50 in round airtight tins were unfiltered, or in student French sans tampax [how rude!], explaining the occasional bits of tobacco on the windscreen, and on my specs! Then the left hand would be free for other chores; release the hand brake, change gear, operate the choke, heater, wipers, indicator, lights [interior, side, headlight, spot, fog], open the one and only passenger door and window, rip open and tuck into a bag of Smith’s Crisps being careful not to accidentally bite on the salt in a twist of blue paper, steer the car in case I had to do hand signals with the right hand, wipe the inside of the front windscreen when it fogs up, reach for the box of tissues from the rear seat, blow my nose or chat or text on the mobile had it been invented!

I loved the pretty green light at the end of the indicator stalk. It blinked. At night, it blinked even brighter lighting up your whole face green so you looked like a Martian. And to change your headlights from high beam to low beam and back again you just press the metal button left of the clutch with your toe, so clever and so simple.

But then life was simple in those days.