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That is the challenge; we often have a few weeks with low wind so need those fossil fuel generation to fill the hole. And adding more turbines doesn't help th
by trebligdivad 3y ago
That is the challenge; we often have a few weeks with low wind so need those fossil fuel generation to fill the hole. And adding more turbines doesn't help the bad cases much.
(I tend to like https://grid.iamkate.com/ https://grid.iamkate.com/ now )
- samwillis 3y agoYes grid.iamkate.com is brilliant, and it has good insights into costs. However, I just like the 90s skeuomorphic design of gridwatch.templar.co.uk, makes me think of simpler times.
- sh4rks 3y agoWow that website loads surprisingly fast
- samwillis 3y agoIt's almost entirely static (or at least server rendered) even all the SVG graphs. I'm going to take punt and say it's a static pre-rendered flat file based on the response time.
- melx 3y ago"...we often have a few weeks with low wind..." Plenty of wind up North + Scotland - just no means to transport it over where the most demand is (the South).
- tialaramex 3y agoNot always. Often, but not always, and that's the problem. This afternoon for example, even off the East Coast of Scotland the wind was about as brisk as a stroll with your elderly grandmother. If you've got 10GW of wind turbines, but they're running at 5% output, that's 500MW, which isn't nothing but it's not even enough for Scotland.
- Gwypaas 3y agoBut it was windy in Ireland, Portugal and the Baltic sea. https://www.windy.com/?100m,50.958,4.345,5 https://www.windy.com/?100m,50.958,4.345,5