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UK total wind generation record beaten today
- gotwaz 7mo agoSome context would make it more interesting. How much of it was used? How much does wind contribute to full day consumption?
- ortusdux 7mo agohttps://grid.iamkate.com/ https://grid.iamkate.com/
- wiredfool 7mo agoIn Ireland, we’re running at about 75% renewables for the day, with most of that being wind. The absolute numbers are smaller, but that’s a peak of about 500 MW of solar and 3.6GW of wind, against something like 5-6Gw of demand.
- robhawkes 7mo agoI shed a little more light on the context via my map which you can also find linked on the page: https://renewables-map.robinhawkes.com https://renewables-map.robinhawkes.com
- toomuchtodo 7mo agoNot to steal from Robin's excellent work, you can see how much it's been (low carbon/renewables generation) over the last twelve months at https://app.electricitymaps.com/map/zone/GB/12mo/monthly https://app.electricitymaps.com/map/zone/GB/12mo/monthly (~56% renewables, ~73% low carbon) (Robin, if there is a way to see this on your site, I could not find it, my apologies!)
- robhawkes 7mo agoNot at all, my stuff is very niche and the other websites and dashboards do a much better job at filling in the higher-level context.
- nasretdinov 7mo agoI must say it was quite windy for the last couple of days. When I say "quite windy" I mean I saw people saying they were blown off their bike :)
- _lvbh 7mo agoNot surprised either. I'm down in Wales & I could hear the glass pane shaking
- ck2 7mo agomeanwhile in the US https://apnews.com/article/trump-offshore-wind-energy-climate-totalenergies-interior-092eeeacc5d09730d4e20a95d7df7de1 https://apnews.com/article/trump-offshore-wind-energy-climat...
- elch 7mo agoMeanwhile the average EE prices for business in USD/kWh: UK: 0.442 USA: 0.148 India: 0.124 China: 0.097 Russia: 0.096
- _aavaa_ 7mo agoWhat is the implication your going for?
- librasteve 7mo agoits unaffordable
- matthewmacleod 7mo agoPoor research then, as end user prices are unfortunately not correlated with the cost of renewables.
- mickdeek86 7mo agoIn the land of the ignorant, the man with one fact is king
- citrin_ru 7mo agoOther Europe countries will be a better comparison. Domestic energy prices in Russia are de-facto set by the state so it’s not a useful data point. Don’t know about India but in developing countries electricity prices are often subsidised by the state as a matter of social policy (which IMHO is a bad idea as people who consume more benefit the most).
- Sarkie 7mo agoCongrats Robin.
- robhawkes 7mo agoThanks! Always a surprise and a pleasure seeing my stuff on here
- robhawkes 7mo agoOh cool, that's my website! Let me know if you have any questions about it and I'll do my best to answer them.
- countrymile 7mo agoGreat website! Can you describe the potential output? There is a little i sign but I can't click it on Firefox mobile.
- robhawkes 7mo agoIndeed! That's including available wind generation that was curtailed (not used) due to transmission constraints. So it's the actual output plus the amount of output that was "lost" because we had to switch off some wind farms, even though the wind was there to generate more.
- ZeroGravitas 7mo agoApparently they've announced some plan to sell this power cheaply to local people on the same side of the bottleneck, though I've not seen the details yet. Seems to be another one of those sensible ideas that needs a global crisis to be pushed through to reality.
- robhawkes 7mo agoYup! Looks like it'll be some form of regional demand flexibility, similar to what suppliers like Octopus Energy (disclaimer: my employer) and others have experimented with over the past few years. https://www.gov.uk/government/news/government-to-make-plug-in-solar-available-within-months https://www.gov.uk/government/news/government-to-make-plug-i...
- nhecker 7mo ago(edit: I see you answered a sibling comment with the same question. TL;DR: Potential output is the output pretending that curtailment did not apply. Thanks!) A UI or terminology question: when 'Potential output' says it is 'Including curtailment', does this mean that it pretends that curtailment doesn't apply, or that it subtracts the curtailed power from the total available so that the total power shown is only the power actually transmitted (exported) to the grid? It's very likely that I'm just not familiar enough with the terms, but this wasn't immediately clear. My guess is the former meaning, although I can imagine it meaning either. Regardless, this is incredibly neat, and I'd love to see this kind of data for the grid that serves me (Eastern Interconnect in the US) -- are you aware of any sites similar?
- plodman 7mo agoAnd yet we’re about to face an eye watering increase in bills due to the way we’re charged for energy.
- turkeywelder 7mo agoLove your stuff Robin. The graphs and wind turbine model are particular favourites How can we fix the curtailment problem? Storage nearer the turbines or just more transmission capacity generally? I presume we'd saturate storage pretty quickly so is it just a case of running more grid wiring from Scotland to say.. Manchester?
- robhawkes 7mo agoThanks! The ultimate fix is to finish upgrading the aging grid. There are other things that can improve the situation however, such as building wind farms away from these constraints, storage (but these can sometimes exacerbate constraints), demand flexibility (eg. place demand above constraints), zonal/regional pricing, and probably more I can't remember off the top of my head. The demand flexibility aspect is already being explored: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/government-to-make-plug-in-solar-available-within-months https://www.gov.uk/government/news/government-to-make-plug-i...
- deterministic 7mo agoGreat website! It would be even more great if it compared total wind generation with total UK power usage for the same time period (with a % for wind power usage).
- citrin_ru 7mo agoYou can see percentage here: https://www.energydashboard.co.uk/live https://www.energydashboard.co.uk/live