4 ms·
Hate to break it to you, but that's definitely not getting charged off solar then and possibly not wind either (depends on how the grid is being maintained).
by vlovich123 3y ago
Hate to break it to you, but that's definitely not getting charged off solar then and possibly not wind either (depends on how the grid is being maintained).
- adgjlsfhk1 3y agoIt is probably largely nuclear. Nuclear plants pretty much never get turned off since they're roughly free to run, and there's much less power used at night.
- thebruce87m 3y agoIt’s mostly wind: https://electricityproduction.uk/in/scotland/ https://electricityproduction.uk/in/scotland/
- robocat 3y agoCool. It is misleading picking Scotland - power is fungible across borders. Otherwise I could claim I was green because my house is next to a hydroelectric dam and I could claim the guys house next to the coal fired plant is bad. the graphs shows interconnects but I couldn't see any power exports to Europe. I presume if there is extra wind generation at 5AM it gets exported to countries that are waking up.
- thebruce87m 3y agoI live in Scotland, where should I pick?
- robocat 3y agoThe relevant figures are for the UK as a whole. If you add load then that marginal extra power comes from the UK network. The interconnects with Europe make it more difficult to know the marginal difference in CO2 production. I live in the South Island of New Zealand which has huge hydropower - power is sent to the North Island via the undersea DC link: https://www.transpower.co.nz/system-operator/live-system-and-market-data/hvdc-transfer https://www.transpower.co.nz/system-operator/live-system-and... So if I add load then what matters is where the marginal extra power demanded is generated from across the whole network (even if that is in the North Island).