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And it's going to get better: "Ørsted is to press ahead with developing the world’s largest offshore wind farm in the North Sea after the UK increased financia

And it's going to get better: "Ørsted is to press ahead with developing the world’s largest offshore wind farm in the North Sea after the UK increased financial support for the sector in a big boost for the Danish group after a string of setbacks." https://www.ft.com/content/4d3cc6d4-f479-4607-9574-63e320af80ff https://www.ft.com/content/4d3cc6d4-f479-4607-9574-63e320af8... https://archive.is/Rm9Hi https://archive.is/Rm9Hi

CaptainOfCoit 3y ago
It's great to see how the usage of the North Sea have shifted over time, and it still remains as useful as before. We've always fished there, and I remember my grandpa being involved with some oil/gas engineering there, he used to have some maps of the North Sea with planned stations or something, and now the wind farms getting expanded to provide cleaner energy.
ksec 3y ago
Has there been any study that if we populate the say 20-30% of North Sea with Wind Turbine, how much electricity could that provide?
- toomuchtodo 3y ago
  Offshore: https://windeurope.org/policy/topics/offshore-wind-energy/ https://windeurope.org/policy/topics/offshore-wind-energy/ https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/north-sea-countries-pledge-massive-ramp-up-wind-energy-draft-2023-04-21/ https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/north-sea-countries-... https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352484722021795 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S235248472... https://www.uib.no/sites/w3.uib.no/files/attachments/presentation_cheynet_brazil.pdf https://www.uib.no/sites/w3.uib.no/files/attachments/present... Onshore, Europe has enough wind potential to power the world.
  - cjrp 3y ago
    There's a David McWilliams podcast episode about how Ireland has enough wind potential to meet their entire energy demand and be a net exporter. Interesting listen https://shows.acast.com/the-david-mcwilliams-podcast/episodes/moving-beyond-oil https://shows.acast.com/the-david-mcwilliams-podcast/episode...
    - toomuchtodo 3y ago
      Thanks for sharing this. Northern Ireland just retired their last coal fired generator at the end of September 2023 and the Republic of Ireland has a 2025 phaseout target for the remaining generators. https://web.archive.org/web/20231004055500/https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-northern-ireland-66957611 https://web.archive.org/web/20231004055500/https://www.bbc.c... https://beyondfossilfuels.org/europes-coal-exit/ https://beyondfossilfuels.org/europes-coal-exit/
- abainbridge 3y ago
  Not a direct answer to your questions, but there's some nice data here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_offshore_wind_farms_in_the_United_Kingdom https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_offshore_wind_farms_in... Currently we have 14.7 GW of operational off-shore wind gen. Another 13 GW is in the planning stage and 46 GW more in the "early planning" stage. There's currently 14 GW of on-shore wind gen.

CaptainOfCoit 3y ago

It's great to see how the usage of the North Sea have shifted over time, and it still remains as useful as before. We've always fished there, and I remember my grandpa being involved with some oil/gas engineering there, he used to have some maps of the North Sea with planned stations or something, and now the wind farms getting expanded to provide cleaner energy.

ksec 3y ago

Has there been any study that if we populate the say 20-30% of North Sea with Wind Turbine, how much electricity could that provide?

toomuchtodo 3y ago
Offshore: https://windeurope.org/policy/topics/offshore-wind-energy/ https://windeurope.org/policy/topics/offshore-wind-energy/ https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/north-sea-countries-pledge-massive-ramp-up-wind-energy-draft-2023-04-21/ https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/north-sea-countries-... https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352484722021795 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S235248472... https://www.uib.no/sites/w3.uib.no/files/attachments/presentation_cheynet_brazil.pdf https://www.uib.no/sites/w3.uib.no/files/attachments/present... Onshore, Europe has enough wind potential to power the world.
- cjrp 3y ago
  There's a David McWilliams podcast episode about how Ireland has enough wind potential to meet their entire energy demand and be a net exporter. Interesting listen https://shows.acast.com/the-david-mcwilliams-podcast/episodes/moving-beyond-oil https://shows.acast.com/the-david-mcwilliams-podcast/episode...
  - toomuchtodo 3y ago
    Thanks for sharing this. Northern Ireland just retired their last coal fired generator at the end of September 2023 and the Republic of Ireland has a 2025 phaseout target for the remaining generators. https://web.archive.org/web/20231004055500/https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-northern-ireland-66957611 https://web.archive.org/web/20231004055500/https://www.bbc.c... https://beyondfossilfuels.org/europes-coal-exit/ https://beyondfossilfuels.org/europes-coal-exit/
abainbridge 3y ago
Not a direct answer to your questions, but there's some nice data here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_offshore_wind_farms_in_the_United_Kingdom https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_offshore_wind_farms_in... Currently we have 14.7 GW of operational off-shore wind gen. Another 13 GW is in the planning stage and 46 GW more in the "early planning" stage. There's currently 14 GW of on-shore wind gen.