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Perhaps it's worth bearing in mind that London's latitude is somewhere North of St John's Newfoundland, solar still works but it's not nearly as clear cut as it
by VBprogrammer 6y ago
Perhaps it's worth bearing in mind that London's latitude is somewhere North of St John's Newfoundland, solar still works but it's not nearly as clear cut as it is in California for example. You can't plan for an average of 99% of days because the whole of December has solar irradiance a tenth that of July.
We already have >10GWh of pumped hydro storage (most of which at Dinorwig Power Station) which is required to balance a grid with a mixture of Gas, Nuclear and Wind power.
- Retric 6y agoEngland already imports significant power from France and has large scale wind production. So, it’s local solar production is no more relevant than McMurdo Station in Antarctica. That said the southern tip of England is noticeably better than London. So, having some minimal local production is viable.
- VBprogrammer 6y agoSignificant? There is a 2GW interlink with France, typical demand is 30-40GW. Its use generally reflects French over production of Nuclear power. Large scale wind production? Maybe, but it's still less than the nuclear component.
- Retric 6y agoSort of, England produces ~40% of it’s electricity from renewables and in 2019 21% from Wind. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wind_power_in_the_United_Kingdom https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wind_power_in_the_United_Kingd... Nuclear power in the United Kingdom provides 20% of the country's domestic production, as of 2020. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_power_in_the_United_Kingdom https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_power_in_the_United_Ki... That said, 5% of it’s power comes from that undersea cable, and France is Heavily nuclear so it arguably swaps back to Nuclear.