DB Cargo UK grounds electric fleet following rocketing electricity prices
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A negative reaction to Britain’s energy cost crisis has short-circuited the environmental ambitions of another rail freight carrier. This time, it’s DB Cargo UK that has has been forced to sideline an electric traction fleet on the grounds of cost. The fiasco of rocketing electricity prices has forced the Doncaster headquartered operator to pull the plug on its class 90 locomotive fleet. The twenty-four locomotives were reengineered from their original deployment on passenger express services.
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1200 euro per round-trip divided by number of containers on full train is not irrecoverable from customer as a fuel surcharge
“This does not mean our actions will be at the expense of decarbonisation”….but decarbonisation is the stupid part of the problem.
No point surcharging as another operator will undercut. Let’s not forget electric traction is only zero emissions at point of use. Not at point of generation
For over 20 years, the UK has been closing down old power stations and building windfarms, with no thought for what happens when the wind isn’t blowing. Expect major blackouts in the near future, as well as dramatic spikes in the price of electricity.
“Last summer, London was spared blackouts by Belgian nuclear power plants — which have since been shut down”
https://thecritic.co.uk/the-tories-should-aim-to-lose-in-2024/
I would understand mothballing them, but not selling or scrapping. Even if DB would like to leave the UK market, that was not a good time to sell electric propulsion.