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Originally Posted by embee
This is quite interesting reading (for those of a nerdy disposition)
https://assets.publishing.service.go..._June_2020.pdf
Renewable electricity generation in the UK is increasing quite substantially, and appears to be more or less directly substituting for gas, that being the most easily varied source. Reasonably encouraging I feel. |
Hardly encouraging, look on here
http://www.gridwatch.templar.co.uk/
Quite a few times in the last few months wind has pretty much disappeared for 4 to 5 day stretches... and solar has been well below 1% for months ( well it is winter in UK ). The upshot was that gas, nuclear, biomass, hydro and cables from France etc. were flat out to make up the shortfall from renewables. The grid even issued a shortage warning ( where price goes up ) - truth is for every wind turbine you need 100% conventional power backup - we cannot run a country using fans on sticks, which is why Germany was building coal fired stations until recently
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/artic...w-uniper-plant and China still building them at a good rate.
UK is responsible for about 1.5% of world emissions, whatever we do makes a miniscule difference to anything... we are saddling our country with unreliable renewables and risk making UK uncompetitive, high energy costs are the reason UK is not a good place for heavy industry and steelmaking etc.